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The Alicia Patterson Foundation 2022 Fellowship Winners Final Judges for the 57th Annual Competition: Sandy Close – founder Ethnic Media Services, Pacific News Service and New America Media Eric Ferrero – director, Fund for Investigative Journalism Erika Hayasaki – associate professor, U.C. Irvine Literary Journalism Program and APF’18 Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn – associate director, Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities; instructor at USC’s Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism For Immediate Release. Contact: 202-246-3751 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Eight accomplished journalists will pursue topics ranging from America’s unacknowledged caregivers to the undocumented people stranded in hospitals as the newest recipients of an Alicia Patterson Foundation grant. The foundation, in its fifth decade, funds American journalism’s oldest writing fellowships. The annual fellowships foster independent, in-depth reporting on local, national and international topics. The fellowships were 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. The Fellows are awarded $40,000 for a 12-month grant and $20,000 for a six-month grant. The new Fellows

The Alicia Patterson Foundation 2021 Fellowship Winners Final Judges for the 56th Annual Competition:   Sandy Close – founder Ethnic Media Services, Pacific News Service and New America Media Louis Freedberg – executive director, EdSource, and APF Fellow (’99) Laura Parker – staff writer, National Geographic, and APF fellow (’96) For Immediate Release. Contact: 202-246-3751 WASHINGTON, D.C. – With grants from the Alicia Patterson Foundation, nine journalists will purse topics in the coming year ranging from community anger over leaving coastal homes to a global snakebite epidemic that helps keep world’s “bottom billion” in poverty. The foundation, which operates American journalism’s oldest writing fellowship, announced the winners of its annual competition today. The grants are designed to foster independent in-depth reporting on national and international affairs. 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. The Fellows are awarded $40,000 for a 12-month grant and $20,000 for a six-month grant. The

The Alicia Patterson Foundation 2020 Fellowship Winners Final Judges for the 55th Annual Competition: Sandy Close – founder, Ethnic Media Services, Pacific News Service and New America Media Laura Parker – staff writer, National Geographic, and APF fellow (’96) Joseph Shapiro – NPR News Investigations correspondent, and APF fellow (’90) For Immediate Release. Contact: 202-246-3751 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ten journalists will pursue topics ranging from justice in American jails to environmental killings across the globe, as the newest recipients of an Alicia Patterson Foundation grant, American journalism’s oldest writing fellowship. The foundation announced the winners of the annual fellowships today, which are designed to foster independent in-depth reporting on national and international affairs. 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. The Fellows are awarded $40,000 for a 12-month grant and $20,000 for a six-month grant. The new Fellows will spend their fellowship months traveling, researching, and writing articles on

The Alicia Patterson Foundation 2019 Fellowship Winners WASHINGTON, D.C. – Top journalists will pursue topics ranging from Chinese development in Africa to a trek across the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, the single largest piece of public land in the United States. The annual fellowships are designed to foster independent in-depth reporting on local, national and international affairs. 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. The Fellows are awarded $40,000 for a 12-month grant and $20,000 for a six-month grant. The new Fellows will spend their fellowship months traveling, researching, and writing articles on their projects for the APF REPORTER, a quarterly web magazine published by the Foundation. Every year, the Fellows’ articles and photo essays are widely distributed through newspapers, news services, magazines, and websites worldwide. Fellows’ work often is published jointly with their “home” news outlet and has resulted in many national awards. The winners were selected