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42^nd 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.

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 Stephen Ferry, a freelance photographer from New York City.

The foundation’s fellows for 2007, and their research topics:

	Jon Anderson Photographer, Anarchy Images, New York, NY “Caña Brava: The Plight of the Braceros on the Sugar Plantations of the Dominican Republic”
Photo by Frank van Riper	Alison Bass Freelance writer, Newton Lower Falls, MA “Speaking Truth to Power: Changing the Way Drugs are Tested and Sold in the U.S.”
Photo by Frank van Riper	Matthew Dallek Freelance writer, Washington, DC “Sense of Siege: The Titanic Struggle to Defend America, 1941-2001”
Photo by Frank van Riper	Chris Davenport Staff writer, The Washington Post, Washington, DC “Soldier-Citizens: How the Army National Guard and Reserves are Adjusting to Life after the War”
Photo by Frank van Riper	Stephen Ferry Freelance photographer, New York, NY “Terror and Civic Resistance in Colombia: Lessons from a Forgotten War”
Photo by Frank van Riper	Tom Knudson Staff writer, The Sacramento Bee, Truckee, CA “The Global Impacts of America’s Consumption of Natural Resources”
Photo by Frank van Riper	Teru Kuwayama Freelance photographer, Brooklyn, NY “No Man’s Land: Survival at the Ends of Empire”
Photo by Frank van Riper	Miriam Pawel Freelance writer, Pasadena, CA “Organizing Farmworkers – Failures of the Past, Opportunities of the Present”

Judges for the 42^nd annual competition included:

Toren Beasley, photo director, Newhouse News Service

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

John Margolies, freelance photographer, author and APF Fellow 2003

Laura Parker, senior writer, USA TODAY, and APF Fellow 1996

Frances Stead Sellers, editor, The Washington Post Health Section and APF Fellow 2003

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 43^rd 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, 2007.