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41^st Annual Alicia Patterson
Journalism Fellowships Announced

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 quarterly magazine published by the Foundation and available via Web site. Fellows’ articles and photo essays are reprinted in newspapers, magazines, textbooks and websites worldwide and have led to award-winning articles, books and documentaries.

Fellows are paid $17.500 for a six-month grant and $35,000 for a 12-month grant.

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 Washington, D.C. at the historic former home of publisher Cissy Patterson, who was Alicia Patterson’s aunt.

More than 230 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 Steve Liss, a photojournalist from Oak Park, IL.

The foundation’s fellows for 2006, and their research topics, include:

Photo by Frank van Riper	Jonas Bendiksen Photographer, Magnum Photos, Inc., New York, NY “The Places We Live: The Slums of the 21st Century”
	Katherine Eban Freelance writer, Brooklyn, NY “The Interaction Between Public Health and Homeland Security Issues”
Photo by Frank van Riper	John Fleming Editor-at-large, Anniston (AL) Star “Economic and Social Justice in Alabama’s Black Belt”
Photo by Frank van Riper	Steve Liss Contract photographer, Time Magazine, Oak Park, IL “Enduring Poverty in the Promised Land”
Photo by Frank van Riper	Tori Marlan Reporter, The Chicago Reader, Chicago, IL “Unaccompanied Minors Seeking Asylum”
Photo by Frank van Riper	Susan E. Reed Freelance writer, Cambridge, MA “Activism in the Corporation”
Photo by Frank van Riper	Mitchell Tobin Reporter, Arizona Daily Star “Endangered Species of the Southwest”
Photo by Frank van Riper	Ken Ward Jr. Reporter, The Charleston (WV) Gazette “The Curse of Coal”

Judges for the 41^st annual competition included:

Sandy Close, founder, New California Media and editor, Pacific News Service

Rita Henley Jensen, executive director, Women’s eNews, and APF Fellow 1994

John Margolies, freelance photographer, author and APF Fellow 2003

Joel Millman, Correspondent, US/Mexico Border Bureau, Wall Street Journal and APF Fellow 1995

Clarence Page, columnist and Washington correspondent, 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 and six-month grants of $17,500 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, an actual and web magazine published quarterly by the Foundation at www.aliciapatterson.org.

For program information and applications for the 42^nd annual competition, contact:

Director
Alicia Patterson Foundation
1025 F St. NW, Suite 700,
Washington, DC 20004.
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, 2006.