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34th Annual Competition Fellowship Winners for 1999
The Alicia Patterson Foundation 1999 Fellowship Winners Judges for the 34rd annual competition were: Toren Beasley, director of photography, Newhouse News Service Sandy Close editor, Pacific News Service Roger Cohn former executive editor, Audubon Magazine, and former APF Fellow Jim Fiedler, Jr. photo editor, America On-Line Stephen Hess author and writer, The Brookings Institution E.R. Shipp ombudsman, The Washington Post Ellen Warren senior reporter and columnist, The Chicago Tribune The Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship program for journalists was established in 1965 in memory of Alicia Patterson, who was editor and publisher of Newsday for nearly twenty-three years before her death in 1963. One-year grants of $35,000 are awarded to working print journalists to pursue independent projects of significant interest and to write articles based on their investigations for the APF Reporter, a quarterly magazine published by the Foundation, which also is available on this web site’s index of back issues For program information and applications for the 35th annual competition, contact: Margaret EngelExecutive DirectorAlicia Patterson Foundation1730 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 850Washington, DC 20006Phone: (202) 393-5995
Glenn Frankel Will Return to London
GLENN FRANKEL will return to London as the Washington Post’s bureau chief in August. He has been editing the Post’s Sunday magazine.
Rick Tulsky Won Second Place from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
RICK TULSKY won second place and $1,000 from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists last November for his series of articles in the San Jose Mercury based on his Patterson research on denials of asylum in the U.S.
Cheryl Reed’s Book Based on her Patterson Work, was Published by Berkeley Books
“Unveiled: The Hidden Lives of Nuns,” Cheryl Reed’s book based on her Patterson work, was published by Berkeley Books. Cheryl is a reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times.
33rd Annual Competition Fellowship Winners for 1998
The Alicia Patterson Foundation 1998 Fellowship Winners WASHINGTON, D.C.—-Ten journalists have been selected to receive one of journalism’s most sought-after fellowships, an Alicia Patterson Foundation grant. The winners were selected through a highly competitive process of screening by a panel of accomplished judges, as well as submitting detailed proposals, examples of past work and references. Recipients spend their fellowship year traveling, researching and writing articles or photo essays on their projects for the APF Reporter, a quarterly magazine published by the Foundation and available via Web site. This is the first year in its history that the foundation has named 10 fellows and the first time there have been three photographers in the fellowship class. The trustees of the foundation also announced that one fellow has been named in honor of Josephine Patterson Albright, who was a major benefactor of the foundation. The Josephine Patterson Albright fellow is Bill Steber, a photographer with the Nashville Tennessean. The foundation’s fellows for 1998, and their research topics, include: Judges for the 33rd annual competition were: Sandy Close,