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58th Annual Competition Fellowship Winners for 2023
The Alicia Patterson Foundation 2023 Fellowship Winners Final Judges for the 58th Annual Competition: Sandy Close – founder Ethnic Media Services, Pacific News Service and New America Media Erika Hayasaki– associate professor, U.C. Irvine Literary Journalism Program and APF’18 Robert Lee Hotz– journalist and chairman, Alicia Patterson Foundation 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 compelling projects will be undertaken in the coming year by nine accomplished journalists, who are the newest recipients of an Alicia Patterson grant. Their topics range from agriculture’s ruinous effects on humans, land and water to to a system of clinical trials that’s often inaccessible to patients. 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
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.
57th Annual Competition Fellowship Winners for 2022
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
Former APF fellow James Ridgeway (APF – 2014) died Feb. 13 in Washington, D.C.
James Ridgeway Former APF fellow James Ridgeway (APF’ 2014) died Feb. 13 in Washington, D.C. A hard-hitting reporter, he exposed the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and inhumane conditions in American prisons, which was the subject of his Patterson fellowship. From environmental pollution to auto safety, he was concerned with the harms to individuals. In his later years, he wrote hundreds of letters to prisoners held in solitary confinement, trying to ease the cruelty of their lack of human contact. He was 84.
56th Annual Competition Fellowship Winners for 2021
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