1999 Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship Winners


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34rd Annual Competition

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, as well as submitting detailed proposals, examples of past work and references. Recipients spend their fellowship year traveling, researching and writing articles on their projects for the APF REPORTER, a quarterly magazine published by the Foundation. Current and past reports also are available on this Web site, www.aliciapatterson.org.

The trustees of the foundation raised the stipend to $35,000, an increase of $5,000 per fellow. The trustees 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 Scott Warren, a freelance photographer in Durango, CO.

The foundation´s fellows for 1999, and their research topics, include:

Frank Clifford
Reporter, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, CA.
The Continental Divide Trail

Paul Cuadros
Reporter, Center for Public Integrity, Washington, D.C.
La Nueva Selva: How Meat and Poultry Plants and Latino Workers are Changing the South

Louis Freedberg
Washington correspondent, San Francisco Chronicle
The Unintended Consequences of Immigration Reform

Leonard Hansen
Freelance writer, Durango, Colorado
Telephone, Mail, and Internet Fraud against Mature Americans

Tim Kao
Freelance photographer, San Jose, California
Photojournalism in Asia

Elizabeth Royte
Freelance writer, New York, NY.
Life at a Biological Research Station in the Tropics

Peggy Simpson
Freelance writer, Warsaw, Poland
Polish entrepreneurs after the economic shock therapy of 1990

Scott Warren
Freelance photographer, Durango, Colorado
The Khanty of Northwestern Sibera

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 Engel
Executive Director
Alicia Patterson Foundation
1730 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 850
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: (202) 393-5995

Application materials may be downloaded from our Web site, by clicking here.

Applications must be postmarked by October 1, 1999.

	Frank Clifford Reporter, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, CA. The Continental Divide Trail
	Paul Cuadros Reporter, Center for Public Integrity, Washington, D.C. La Nueva Selva: How Meat and Poultry Plants and Latino Workers are Changing the South
	Louis Freedberg Washington correspondent, San Francisco Chronicle The Unintended Consequences of Immigration Reform
	Leonard Hansen Freelance writer, Durango, Colorado Telephone, Mail, and Internet Fraud against Mature Americans
	Tim Kao Freelance photographer, San Jose, California Photojournalism in Asia
	Elizabeth Royte Freelance writer, New York, NY. Life at a Biological Research Station in the Tropics
	Peggy Simpson Freelance writer, Warsaw, Poland Polish entrepreneurs after the economic shock therapy of 1990
	Scott Warren Freelance photographer, Durango, Colorado The Khanty of Northwestern Sibera