20th Annual Competition Fellowship Winners for 1985

The Alicia Patterson Foundation

1985 Fellowship Winners

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Margaret Edds

Reporter The Virginian-Pilot/Ledger Star (Richmond)

“Black Political Power in the South”

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Guy Gugliotta

Foreign Reporter The Miami Herald

“Argentina: The Military in Power - 1976-83”

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Alma Guillermoprieto

Reporter The Washington Post

“Changes in Rural Life Under the Policies of the European Economic Community”

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John Judis

Senior Editor In These Times

“The Development of American Conservative Politics”

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David Lamb

Cairo Bureau Chief, The Los Angeles Times

“The Arabs Today”

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Stephen Shames

Freelance photographer, affiliated with, Visions Photo Agency

“Child Poverty in America”

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Spencer Sherman

Supreme Court Correspondent, United Press International

“The Struggle of the Hmong in America”

Photos by Ira J. Schwarz

Judges for the 20th Annual Competition were:

Andrew Barnes, president and editor,  St. Petersburg Times and former APF Fellow

Mary Clay Berry, freelance writer and 1976 APF Fellow

Karen De Young, foreign editor,  The Washington Post

Katherine Winston Evans, editor,  The Washington Journalism Review

Steve Hess, senior fellow,  The Brookings Institution

Michael Janeway, editor,  The Boston Globe

Anthony Marro, managing editor,  Newsday

Gene Roberts, executive editor,  The Phiadelphia Inquirer

Robert Samuelson, contributing editor,  Newsday and 1982 APF Fellow

Maureen Santini, White House correspondent,  Associated Press

Dominic Phillips

Dom Phillips 1964-2022

It is with great sadness that the Foundation acknowledges the death of Dom Phillips, who was researching solutions to protect the Amazon under his Alicia Patterson fellowship.