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2023 Winners Fellowship and grants to journalists

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,

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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

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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

2020 Fellows

55th Annual Competition 
Fellowship Winners for 2020

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

2019 Fellows

54th Annual Competition Fellowship Winners for 2019

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

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53rd Annual Competition Fellowship Winners for 2018

The Alicia Patterson Foundation 2018 Fellowship Winners WASHINGTON, D.C. — Top journalists will pursue topics ranging from the resilience of Syria’s autocratic regime to the environmental losses from American overbuilding as the newest recipients of an Alicia Patterson Foundation grant. The foundation, in its fifth

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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

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51st Annual Competition Fellowship Winners Announced for 2016

The Alicia Patterson Foundation 2016 Fellowship Winners Final Judges for the 51st Annual Competition: Sandy Close – founder, Pacific News Service and New America Media  Christian Davenport – Washington Post reporter and APF fellow 2007 Mark Feldstein – Philip Merrill College of Journalism professor, University

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50th Annual Competition Fellowship Winners for 2015

The Alicia Patterson Foundation 2015 Fellowship Winners WASHINGTON, D.C. — Top journalists will pursue topics ranging from dark matter to the mining of the seas and the birth of the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service as the newest recipients of an Alicia Patterson Foundation grant, American

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49th Annual Competition Fellowship Winners Announced for 2014

The Alicia Patterson Foundation 2014 Fellowship Winners 49th Annual Alicia Patterson Foundation Competition Fellowship Winners Announced for 2014 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Journalists will pursue topics ranging from America’s judicial detainees to gas pipeline safety and dramatic changes in nursing homes and mental health systems as

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48th Annual Competition Fellowship Winners for 2013

The Alicia Patterson Foundation 2013 Fellowship Winners 48th Annual Competition Fellowship Winners for 2013 Brendan Borrell Freelance writer, Brooklyn, NY “Herbal Medicines and the Fight Against AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis” Stéphanie Giry Staff Editor, International Herald Tribune, Hong Kong “The Khmer Rouge and Cambodia, Then

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47th Annual Competition 2012 Fellowship Winners

The Alicia Patterson Foundation 2012 Fellowship Winners 47th ANNUAL ALICIA PATTERSON JOURNALISM FELLOWSHIPS ANNOUNCED WASHINGTON, D.C. — Six journalists will pursue topics ranging from the impact of budget cuts on civil justice to an elephants’ rebellion in India, as the newest recipients of an Alicia

46th Annual Competition 2011 Fellowship Winners

The Alicia Patterson Foundation 2011 Fellowship Winners The foundation’s fellows for 2011, and their research topics: Andrea Bruce – Photographer, VII Network, Mt. Rainer, MD. Afghanistan: Surviving the Choices of War Mary Ellen Hannibal – freelance writer, San Francisco, CA The Spine of the Continent:

45th Annual Competition 2010 Fellowship Winners

The Alicia Patterson Foundation 2010 Fellowship Winners The foundation’s fellows for 2010, and their research topics: Japan’s Disposable Workers Shiho Fukada Freelance photographer, Beijing, China The Uncertain Future of American Agriculture Lisa Hamilton Freelance writer, Mill Valley, CA The Military’s Black Operations Tara McKelvey Senior

44th Annual Competition Fellowships Announced for 2009

The Alicia Patterson Foundation 2009 Fellowship Winners 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 $40,000 and

43rd Annual Competition Fellowships Winners for 2008

The Alicia Patterson Foundation 2008 Fellowship Winners   WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nine journalists have been selected to receive American journalism’s oldest writing fellowship, an Alicia Patterson Foundation grant. Recipients spend their fellowship months traveling, researching, and writing articles on their projects for the APF REPORTER,

42nd Annual Competition Fellowships Winners for 2007

The Alicia Patterson Foundation 2007 Fellowship Winners WASHINGTON, D.C. — Eight journalists have been selected to receive American journalism’s oldest writing fellowship, an Alicia Patterson Foundation grant. Recipients spend their fellowship months traveling, researching, and writing articles on their projects for the APF REPORTER, a

41st Annual Competition Fellowships Winners for 2006

The Alicia Patterson Foundation 2006 Fellowship Winners   WASHINGTON, D.C. — Eight journalists have been selected to receive American journalism’s oldest writing fellowship, an Alicia Patterson Foundation grant. Recipients spend their fellowship months traveling, researching, and writing articles on their projects for the APF REPORTER,

40th Annual Competition Fellowships Winners for 2005

The Alicia Patterson Foundation 2005 Fellowship Winners   WASHINGTON, D.C. — Seven 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

39th Annual Competition Fellowships Winners for 2004

The Alicia Patterson Foundation 2004 Fellowship Winners WASHINGTON, D.C. — Eight 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,