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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Seven 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 James Nachtwey.
The Alicia Patterson Foundation's fellows for 2002, and their research topics, include:
 Photo by Ira Schwarz | Roger Atwood "Loot: The Global Trade in Plundered Artifacts" |
 Photo by Ira Schwarz | Saul Friedman "Will Younger Americans Kill Social Security-Medicare?" |
 Photo by Ira Schwarz | Diane Granat "Julius Rosenwald: America's Forgotten Philanthropist" |
 Photo by Ira Schwarz | Rita Kempley "Sexual Mythology in American Cinema Today" |
 Photo by Ira Schwarz | Donatella Lorch "Transforming Refugee Resettlement: The Politics and the People" |
 Charlie Cole for Time | James Nachtwey "AIDS in Africa" |
 Photo by Ira Schwarz | Philippe Wamba "Africa's Next Generation" |
Sandy Close, editor, Pacific News Service
John Hyde, director, Fund for Investigative Journalism
Dele Olojede, foreign editor, Newsday
Steve Rubin, freelance photographer and APF Fellow '94
Ellen Warren, senior correspondent, 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.
For program information and applications for the 38th annual competition, contact:
Director
Alicia Patterson Foundation
1730 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 850
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: (202) 393-5995
Application materials and instructions may be downloaded from our website at: :www.aliciapatterson.org/APF_Application/APF_Application.html.
Applications must be postmarked by October 1, 2003.