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The Alicia Patterson Foundation is a non-profit charitable operating foundation that supports professional journalists for six or twelve month reporting fellowships. It is named for Alicia Patterson, the founder and first publisher of Newsday.
Look out for the new memoir by Putsata Reang (APF'05). "Ma and Me" (Macmillan) already has a starred review in Publishers Weekly. The book relates her family's harrowing departure from Cambodia and the resulting burden of cultural and family expectations. Putsata teaches writing at the University of Washington.
Talented photographer Jill Freedman, APF '94, died Wednesday in New York. She was 79. Her photographs on the aftermath of the Holocaust in Poland were exceptional. Jill lived her work--traveling for weeks with the Poor People's Crusade, as well as carnival workers, firefighters and unusual residents of anywhere she lived (NYC, Miami). She will be missed. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/arts/jill-freedman-dead.amp.html
She immersed herself in the rougher precincts of American life for months at a time, portraying their denizens as noble but not necessarily heroic.
APF fellow Ismail Einashe's report on China overtaking the garlic industry in Kenya is now up on NBCNews.com.
Farmers say Beijing's growing presence in Kenya is having a negative impact on their lives, culture, and ability to make ends meet.
1974 Fellow, James Conaway, will be having a show of his new paintings, Riparian, and a signing of his new book, "Napa at Last Light," on March 6 at the Cross Mackenzie Gallery, 1675 Wisconsin, upper Georgetown, 6-8.
February's end marked the end of Black History Month. This piece by 2017 Fellow Jeff Johnson discusses the history of black communities proximity to dangerous chemical manufactures.
West Virginia State University, a 125-year-old historically black university, rested for decades on the fence line of a pesticide manufacturer, a stone’s throw from tanks holding lethal amounts of one of the world’s most dangerous and infamous chemicals, methyl isocyanate. The chemical, known as...
From Alicia Patterson Fellow Jocelyn Zuckerman
In the last decade, consumers across North America and Europe have become increasingly aware of the environmental costs of producing palm oil, now the worl
This is a good opportunity for freelance journalists...deadline in 2 days...
Apply to FIRE by March 23 PO Box 311 | Great Barrington, MA 01230 US Breaking Through Empowered reporters, new funding—and a challenge With help from FIRE's Research Desk, Texas-based freelancer Cecilia Balli broke open reporting on a political-corruption story. Photo by Joel Salcido It’s not a bad…
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article120399173.html
Dot Jackson was a 1991 APF fellow who wrote about economic survival in the Southern Highlands of South Carolina. She was an exceptional journalist, columnist and novelist. A strong woman who was a friend and champion of rural America.
Immensely popular with readers, who felt “she writes like I talk,” she went on to write a novel and co-found an arts and folklife center.
Sad news to pass along.
Fellowship Winners for 2016. Congratulations and thank you to all applicants!
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Top journalists will pursue topics ranging from the influx of global investors in Africa to the environmental siege confronting poor Californians as the newest recipients of an Alicia Patterson Foundation grant. The foundation, in its fifth decade, funds American journalism’s olde…
Esther Kaplan wins 2015 MOLLY National Journalism Prize:
The Molly National Journalism Prize—Recognizing Superior Journalism in the Tradition of Molly Ivins! The MOLLY Prize is awarded for an article or series of up …
Read this important piece by APF board member Michael Massing:
That digital technology is disrupting the business of journalism is beyond dispute. What’s striking is how little attention has been paid to the impact that technology has had on the actual practice of journalism. The distinctive properties of the Internet—speed, immediacy, interactivity, boundless…
APF Fellow Theo Emery's article "The Chemical Weapons Revival" is on newyorker.com. He is examining the birth of the U.S. Chemical Warfare Service for his Alicia Patterson fellowship year.
One scholar, reflecting on the use of chlorine gas in Belgium a hundred years ago and in Syria today, said, “Everything old is new again.”
Congratulations to Esther Kaplan, one of the finalists for the Molly Ivins National Journalism Prize for her piece in the Virginia Review Quarterly, which was based on her APF research.
The MOLLY National Journalism Prize, honoring the memory and legacy of the inimitable Molly Ivins and recognizing great American journalism, will be presented at a dinner on Thursday, May 28, 2015, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin, Texas. The Texas Observer and its nonprofit publisher, The Texas Democracy Foundation, have announced ten competition finalists.
At the heart of this event is the presentation of the 2015 MOLLY Prize and two honorable mention awards. A board of advisors composed of prominent journalists reviewed all entries and selected the finalists.
The finalists are:
Katha Pollitt, The Nation: "Subject to Debate" columns (April 2014)
Jay Root, The Texas Tribune: "Hurting for Work” (June 2014)
Alex Campbell, Buzzfeed News: "Battered, Bereaved & Behind Bars” (October 2014)
David Jackson, Gary Marx & Duaa Eldeib, Chicago Tribune: "Harsh Treatment” (December 2014)
Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker: "The Outcast” (November 2014)
Ken Armstrong, The Marshall Project and The Washington Post: "Death by Deadline” (November 2014)
Pamela Colloff, Texas Monthly: "The Witness” (September 2014)
Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker: “Before the Law” (October 2014)
Gary Fields and John Emshwiller, The Wall Street Journal: "As Arrest Records Rise, Americans Find Consequences Can Last a Lifetime; Long After Arrests, Records Live On; For More Teens, Arrests Replace School Discipline; and What It Felt Like to Be a ‘Suspicious’ Black Teenager” (August 2014)
Esther Kaplan, Virginia Quarterly Review: "Losing Sparta: The Bitter Truth Behind the Gospel of Productivity” (June 2014)
The MOLLY National Journalism Prize, including a $5,000 cash award, was established by The Texas Observer to recognize print or online journalism of exceptional merit that focuses on civil liberties or social justice and embodies the intelligence, deep thinking and/or passionate wit that marked the work of the late Molly Ivins. The two honorable mention prizes include $1,000 cash awards.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, filmmaker, and immigration reform activist Jose Antonio Vargas will deliver a keynote address, and actress and activist Kathleen Turner will emcee the event program. The Bernard Rapoport Philanthropy Award will be presented to the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History and Dr. Don Carleton for preserving the Observer archives as a historical and academic resource.
APF fellow April Saul is examining Camden NJ for her project. A few hours after sitting in one family's living room yesterday, that house collapsed. The family escaped. The parents had tried for years to get damage corrected from a next-door demolition, all without success. www.coourierpostonline.com/story/news/local/south-jersey/2015/03/09
There are some great funding opportunities for women journalists through the International Media Women's Foundation -- its Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists. Apply online by March 23, 2015 at http://www.iwmf.org/fund.
Here's an important study by Project Word on how difficult it is to be a working freelance writer or photographer today.
Data from Project Word quantifies challenges of freelance investigative reporting
Kudos to APF board member Kristal Brent Zook for her upcoming piece in the September issue of Essence magazine, "The Latest Assault on Your Voting Rights." The piece includes a detailed listing of what new forms of ID are required in Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia in order for citizens to exercise their right to vote.
Relieved gratitude that former APF fellow Alissa Rubin, reporting for the New York Times from Iraq, survived a helicopter crash. Her story: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/world/middleeast/iraq-alissa-j-rubin-a-times-correspondent-recounts-fatal-helicopter-crash-in-kurdistan.html?_r=0
For the pilot, Maj. Gen. Majid Ahmed Saadi, the mission was the most important thing he had done in his life, the most significant thing he had done in his 35 years of flying. It was as if it gave his whole life meaning.
NBC.com ran APF fellow Ada Calhoun's piece on pregnancy colliding with the U.S. justice system:
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pregnant-opiates-when-following-doctors-orders-breaks-law-n100781
Aberdeen, Ohio— Jenessa Moman lives in a cozy, one-story house in this town of just 1,600, a five-minute drive from George Clooney’s Kentucky hometown. Out b...
A terrific review by labor lawyer Tom Geoghegan of Miriam Pawel's (APF'2007) biography of Cesar Chavez in today's New York Times Book Review.
In this biography, the labor leader Cesar Chavez emerges as a visionary yet tragically flawed figure.
The book about Cesar Chavez written by Miriam Pawel (APF' 2007) won praise this week by Nathan Heller in The New Yorker. (He writes, "In 'The Crusades of Cesar Chavez' (Bloomsbury), a provocative new biography, Miriam Pawel reassess Chavez's legacy under a raking light.") The L.A. Times also wrote a rave review and feature story. The book grew out of Miriam's APF project, which was about organizing farmworkers. She is on a book tour that coincides with the release of a new movie about Chavez. Check her schedule and other praise for the book at: http://miriampawel.com/
The Crusades of Cesar Chavez Is Here!Recommended in starred reviews and hailed by experts in the field, “The Crusades of Cesar Chavez” is the first comprehensive biography of the most significant Latino leader in recent American history. Rigorously researched and riveting in its dramatic arc, this…
Congratulations to Brenda Kenneally (APF 2008) who received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her terrific work in photography.
The Alicia Patterson Foundation is proud to announce the winners of the 49th Annual Fellowship Competition.
49th Annual Alicia Patterson Foundation Competition Fellowship Winners Announced for 2014 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Thirteen journalists will pursue topics ranging from America’s judicial detainees to gas pipeline safety and dramatic changes in nursing homes and mental health systems as the newest recipien...
APF is pleased to share with you the release of Wealth and Power by Orville Schell (APF''80) and John Delury. (Random House).
China experts Schell and Delury focus on eleven key Chinese individuals to show that China is trying to restore its national greatness through fuqiang (wealth and power). Find it on amazon here:
http://www.amazon.com/Wealth-Power-Chinas-Twenty-first-Century/dp/0679643478
1990 APF Fellow Joseph Shapiro is featured on NPR's "All Things Considered."
It was a saved newspaper article that led to the FBI investigation into John Queen's death four decades later.
Please enjoy this lovely article by Gabrielle Esperdy on the American Roadside photography of 2003 fellow, John Margolies. During his fellowship Mr.Margolies explored the architecture of roadside and main street through vivid photographs. This article was published in Buildings & Landscapes 19 (Fall...
Sandy Close has been a frequent judge for the Alicia Patterson foundation.
Sandy Close, recipient of the 2012 I.F. Stone Medal, has made a career out of helping ethnic communities and the dispossessed tell their own stories
Check out this article by Gabrielle Esperdy about the roadside photography of 2003 fellow John Margolies.
Kirkus review:
NOSE
Author: Conaway, James
Review Issue Date: November 15, 2012
Online Publish Date: November 1, 2012
Publisher:Dunne/St. Martin's
Pages: 336
Price ( Hardcover ): $24.99
Publication Date: March 12, 2013
ISBN ( Hardcover ): 978-1-250-00684-4
Category: Fiction
Conaway (Vanishing America, 2008, etc.) pens a lighthearted novel centering on oenophiles cavorting in a lush, grape-growing California valley.
Conaway’s catalyst for his wine-country appreciation is an unlabeled bottle of Cabernet. The bottle ends up on the sampling table of Clyde Craven-Jones, known to wine lovers as CJ, head of the mega-influential Craven-Jones on Wine. CJ is a British expat and something of a corpulent, self-absorbed snob. His wife is the younger, winsome Claire Craven-Jones, who escaped Arkansas trailer-living by marrying the wine expert. It’s Claire to whom Clyde has assigned the task of determining the origin of the unlabeled bottle—“Big nose, briary, just enough forward fruit. Fine tannins”—the first California Cab he believes worthy of 20 points, a rating never before awarded by Craven-Jones on Wine. To trace the bottle's origins, Claire hires Les, farm boy turned reporter, out of work and unable to settle his bar tab, and so he’s pretending to be an investigator, thanks to recommendations from ponytailed Ben, owner of the Glass Act, a decrepit bar stocked with expensive, exotic wines. There’s Sara Hutt Beale, daughter of Jerome, a less-than-scrupulous developer now deep in debt after turning a valley vineyard into Hutt Family Estates, a modern high-end wine factory. Sara’s own land adjoins that of melancholy Cotton Harrell, a river ecologist turned philosopher turned vintner, mourning the death of his lover. Like blending Merlot-Malbec grapes for the perfect Bordeaux, Conaway uses this cast, and an assortment of quirky supporting players, to weave multiple narratives into a cozy, no-murder and not-quite mystery, all set in motion after CJ accidentally dies when he becomes stuck in a giant metal tank of wine. Les helps the conservative Claire reenergize Craven-Jones on Wine—and her love life—while simultaneously using an anonymous blog to decant murky wine-country secrets, the most damaging of which is Jerome’s machinations to turn part of the Hutt Family Estates vineyard into a forest of McMansions.
The cheerful complexity of Conaway's novel rivals the richest, most nose-worthy, palate-pleasing Cabernet.
1997 Fellow Donna DeCesar has released her first book "Unsettled/Desasosiego" explores through photo journalism the lives of gang members and their families in Central America.
Culminating thirty years of photographing gang members and their families and collecting images that have been featured in Aperture, Mother Jones, and other publications, award-winning photojournalist Donna De Cesare uncovers the effects of decades of war and gang violence on the lives of youths in…
Please check out the blog of Jim Conaway, a fellow from 1974. Mr Conaway has just completed his most recent work entitled "Nose", a novel about Napa-Valley wine society.
Please welcome the 48th Annual Fellowship winners for 2013.
Brendan Borrell Freelance writer, Brooklyn, NY “Herbal Medicines and the Fight Against AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis”
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Please check out Joseph Rodriguez, 1993 APF Fellows, interview on alternet.
From gang life to migrant workers, this Brooklyn photographer gives voice to people who don't often have one.
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