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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 year traveling, researching, and writing articles on their projects for the APF REPORTER, a quarterly magazine published by the Foundation and available via Web site. Fellows' articles and photo essays are reprinted in newspapers, magazines, and websites worldwide.
The fellows are paid $35,000 per year.
The winners were selected through a highly competitive process of screening by two panels of judges, as well as submitting detailed proposals, examples of past work, and references. This year's final judging was held in Chicago.
More than 200 reporters, editors, and photographers have won Alicia Patterson fellowships since the foundation was established in 1965 to honor the former publisher of Newsday.
The trustees of the foundation also named one fellow in honor of Josephine Patterson Albright, who was a major benefactor of the foundation. The Josephine Patterson Albright fellow is David Wells, a photojournalist from Providence, R.I.
The foundation's fellows for 2001, and their research topics, include:
 | Rudy Abramson "The Latter Days of King Coal: Wealth, Poverty & Public Policy in Appalachia" |
 | Marc Asnin "Uncle Charlie: A Photographic Family Album about Mental Illness" |
 | Jimmie Briggs, Jr. "Paradise Lost: Child Soldiers and the Impact of War on Tamil Youth" |
 | Gary Delsohn "A Year Inside an Urban District Attorney's Office" |
 | Robin Marantz Henig "Bringing Science to the People: |
 | Phil Hilts "Food and Drug Regulation in America" |
 | Marjorie Valbrun "Haitian Immigrants' Emerging American Identity & Political Activism" |
 | Mary Anne Weaver "Pakistan: In the Shadow of Zia Ul-Haq and Afghanistan" |
 | David Wells "Can India Reconcile its Past with its Future?" |
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 issuesSusan Bennett, Director of Asian and European Programs, The Freedom Forum
Lee Bey, architecture critic, Chicago Sun-Times
Ken Bode, dean, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University
Walt Harrington, professor, College of Communications, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
Michael Millenson, author and APF Fellow '86
Ellen Warren, columnist, Chicago Tribune
Lois Wille, Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer, Chicago Tribune
For program information and applications for the 37th 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, 2001.