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52nd Annual Competition Fellowship Winners for 2017
The Alicia Patterson Foundation 2017 Fellowship Winners 52nd Annual Competition Fellowship Winners Announced for 2017 For Immediate Release Contact: 202-246-3751 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Top journalists will pursue topics ranging from the dangers of ignored nuclear maintenance to whether Hong Kong will move into China’s orbit 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 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,
Book Release by Former Fellow Donna DeCesare
APF Fellow Donna DeCesare has just released her first book Unsettled/Desasosiego: Children in a World of Gangs. Some of the original work for this book was done during Ms. DeCesare’s 1997 fellowship. The book is a bi-lingual memoir of Ms. DeCesare’s time photographing gang-life in Central America. Ms. DeCesare’s fellowship title was “Youth Identity and Gang Violence in the Americas.” Her fellowship work covered life during and after gang participation in countries from Haiti to El Salvador. Ms. DeCesare has an event for the book release at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles on May 9th. On June 2nd her work will be featured in the show, War / Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath, also at the Annenberg Space for Photography. Please visit Donna DeCesare’s website for more information on this book, other projects and events.
Alice Arlen, 75, APF Board President Emeritus, Supported Vital Journalism
Alice Arlen, Screenwriter With Premier Journalistic Pedigree, Dies at 75 Continue reading the main story at NYTimes.com by clicking the link above.
Builder Levy Book Signing
Those in New York City on Friday, Jan. 17th, please join former APF fellow Builder Levy at the International Center of Photography, 1133 Avenue of the Americas (at 43rd St.), from 6-7:30 pm for a book signing for his new book, “Appalachia USA.” Builder’s 2004 project for the Alicia Patterson Foundation was on Appalachia. Many of the photographs included in the book were taken during his fellowship year. Listen to Builder’s interview about the book on West Virginia Public Radio program Inside Appalachia Read an article about Appalachia USA published in the WV Gazette-Mail http://www.builderlevy.com For comments or feedback:builder@builderlevy.com
Esther Kaplan wins 2015 MOLLY National Journalism Prize
Congratulations to Esther Kaplan! Esther wrote this winning piece under her APF fellowship and it appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review. http://www.texasobserver.org/molly-prize-archives/ The Molly National Journalism Prize—Recognizing Superior Journalism in the Tradition of Molly Ivins! The MOLLY Prize is awarded for an article or series of up to four short, related articles or columns telling the stories that need telling, challenging conventional wisdom, focusing on civil liberties and/or social justice, and embodying the intelligence, deep thinking and/or passionate wit that marked Molly’s work. This year’s prize has been awarded to Esther Kaplan for “Losing Sparta: The Bitter Truth Behind the Gospel of Productivity” in The Virginia Quarterly Review. HONORABLE MENTIONS:Alex Campbell, Buzzfeed News: “Battered, Bereaved & Behind Bars” (October 2014)David Jackson, Gary Marx & Duaa Eldeib, Chicago Tribune: “Harsh Treatment” (December 2014) The MOLLY National Journalism Prize was presented at a dinner on Thursday, May 28, 2015, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin, Texas. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, filmmaker, and immigration reform activist Jose Antonio Vargas delivered a keynote address, and actress and activist Kathleen