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38^th Annual Alicia Patterson
Journalism Fellowships Announced

The trustees of the Alicia Patterson Foundation, the nation’s oldest journalism writing fellowship, are pleased to announce this year’s winners of their fellowship grants. The winners are selected by two rounds of rigorous judging from panels of professional journalists.

The Alicia Patterson Foundation fellowship program 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, available at www.aliciapatterson.org.

The Alicia Patterson Foundation’s fellows for 2003 and their research topics:

Photo by Steven Rubin	Diana Campbell Fairbanks, AK – business reporter, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner “Alaska Natives and Cancer”
Photo by Steven Rubin	John Margolies New York, NY – freelance photographer and writer “Revisiting Roadside and Main Street America”
Photo by Steven Rubin	Paul Molyneaux Whiting, ME – freelance reporter “The Untallied Costs of Salmon and Shrimp Aquaculture”
Photo by Steven Rubin	Ken Olsen Portland, OR – reporter, The (Vancouver) Columbian “Land Swaps/Land Scams”
Photo by Steven Rubin	Frances Stead Sellers Baltimore, MD – deputy editor, Washington Post Outlook “Making Sense of America#146;s New Multinational Identity”
Photo by Steven Rubin	Lawrence Tye Cambridge, MA – correspondent, Boston Globe “Pullman Porters and the Birth of the Black Middle Class”

Judges for the 38th annual competition were:

Sandy Close, editor, Pacific News Service

Dele Olojede, foreign editor, Newsday

Sree Sreenivasan, administrator, Online Journalism Awards and co-founder, South Asian Journalists Association; Columbia University journalism professor

Maggie Steber, director of photography, The Miami Herald and APF Fellow ‘88

Ellen Warren, senior correspondent, Chicago Tribune

In honor of Josephine Patterson Albright, a long-time benefactor of the foundation, each year one fellow is designated as the Josephine Patterson Albright fellow. For 2003, the designation is given to photojournalist John Margolies.

For program information and applications for the 40th 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.