Alicia Patterson Foundation

09/22/2024

APF'S NOTABLE JOURNALISM OVER THE PAST 60

Scott Warren, a photographer based in Durango, CO., examined the life of the Khanty of northwestern Siberia. He has written and photographed the outdoors for Smithsonian, Outside, and Audubon magazines.

Sitting cross-legged on a hand-hewn, wooden sled I am wondering how I can coax a little more speed out of the two reindeer trudging before me. Up ahead, Alexei is growing smaller and to the rear Misha is rapidly catching up. They were smart in positioning me—a novice reindeer driver—in the middl...

09/17/2024

APF'S NOTABLE JOURNALISM OVER THE PAST 60

Kat McGowan is a California-based journalist with a background in science and health reporting. She is now concentrating on world of caregiving, an endeavor that affects some 53 million Americans, yet is virtually invisible despite being the nation’s largest healthcare workforce.

Forget the crappy caregiver bots and puppy-eyed seals. When my parents got sick, I turned to a new generation of roboticists—and their glowing, talking, blobby creations.

09/08/2024

APF'S NOTABLE JOURNALISM OVER THE PAST 60 YEARS

Writer Emily MacFarquhar researched the life and career of Benazir Bhutto during her fellowship year. A writer who focused on China and South Asia, she contributed expert articles for more than two decades to The Economist. The magazine published her policy booklet, “China: Mao’s Last Leap.” Earlier in her career, she worked for British television and U.S. News & World Report. She died in March, 2001 at her home in Cambridge, MA.

https://aliciapatterson.org/emily-macfarquhar/benazir-and-the-bomb/

08/13/2024

APF'S NOTABLE JOURNALISM OVER THE PAST 60 YEARS

Stephanie Hanes researched the challenges of American aid in Africa during her fellowship year. Her 2017 book, “White Man’s Game: Saving Animals, Rebuilding Eden, and Other Myths of Conservation in Africa” included her APF research. She is a correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor on the environment and climate change. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, USA TODAY, The Baltimore Sun, Smithsonian Magazine and other venues. She teaches at Yale University’s School of the Environment and at The College of William & Mary.

https://aliciapatterson.org/stephanie-hanes/the-complicated-problem-of-stopping-the-poaching-of-wild-animals/

08/04/2024

APF'S NOTABLE JOURNALISM OVER THE PAST 60 YEARS

Miriam Paweł examined the farm labor movement during her fellowship year. Her 2009 book, “The Union of Their Dreams – Power, Hope and Struggle in Cesar Chavez’s Farm Worker Movement,” was partly based on that research. In 2014, she wrote “The Crusades of Cesar Chavez – A Biography,” which won the 2015 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2018, her book “The Browns of California – the Family Dynasty that Transformed the State and Shaped the Nation” was published. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times.
https://aliciapatterson.org/miriam-pawel/a-union-once-again-woos-underpaid-farmworkers/

07/28/2024

APF'S NOTABLE JOURNALISM OVER THE PAST 60 YEARS

Jeff Fleischer, a Chicago journalist and author, spent his fellowship year reporting on the fate of the remote Pacific atoll of Tuvalu, the nation most susceptible to being overtaken by elevating sea levels.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — On October 1, 1975, the British colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands officially split in two, with the nine small coral atolls of the Ellice Islands reclaiming their traditional name of Tuvalu.

07/21/2024

APF'S NOTABLE JOURNALISM OVER THE PAST 60 YEARS

Diane Granat, a longtime writer for Washingtonian Magazine, researched the life of Julius Rosenwald during her Patterson fellowship. Granat, a three-time finalist for a National Magazine Award, died of a brain tumor on Aug. 25, 2004 at age 49. A Medill School of Journalism graduate of Northwestern University, she covered in-depth stories on education, housing, politics and economic development. She wrote for The Washington Post, Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report and the Daily Herald in Arlington Heights, IL, which sent her to Washington as its correspondent. She also won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Education Writers Association.

https://aliciapatterson.org/diane-granat/americas-give-while-you-live-philanthropist/

07/16/2024

APF'S NOTABLE JOURNALISM OVER THE PAST 60 YEARS

Dorothea Jackson, an APF fellow in 1991, was a freelance writer in Six Mile, SC, examining the condition of the Southern Highlands.

There is a flat room-sized rock that sticks out into a pool in Big Santeetlah Creek, which borders Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest in Graham County, N.C. The place is called Rattler’s Ford, a name that more likely came down from a Cherokee family that lived here than from a snake.

07/16/2024

APF'S NOTABLE JOURNALISM OVER THE PAST 60 YEARS

Noé Montes is based in Southern California and creates documentary work around a social issue or geographic location. He uses the work as a tool for community engagement through exhibits, workshops, and community dialogues. During his Patterson fellowship, Noé examined the lives of farm workers in the Coachella Valley.

Known for its sweet potato pies, the long-established 27th Street Bakery at 2700 S. Central Avenue, also is distinguished by its red and white exterior and painted signage

06/24/2024

APF'S NOTABLE JOURNALISM OVER THE PAST 60 YEARS

How The Bush Administration Reversed Decades Of Progress On Mine Safety

Ken Ward Jr. currently is a distinguished fellow in ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network, where he worked on stories about West Virginia’s natural gas industry and the questionable business empire of West Virginia governor Jim Justice. A 2018 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the so-called “genius” grant – he co-founded the Mountain State Spotlight, a nonprofit news organization. He was an environmental and investigative reporter for the Charleston Gazette and Gazette-Mail. Ken focused on the West Virginia coal industry during his APF fellowship.

https://aliciapatterson.org/ken-ward-jr/how-the-bush-administration-reversed-decades-of-progress-on-mine-safety/

06/11/2024

APF'S NOTABLE JOURNALISM OVER THE PAST 60 YEARS

Mary Kane, now senior editor at the News Literacy Project, a nonpartisan education nonprofit. She focused on predatory finance firms and financial literacy during her fellowship year.

It began with just one bad check, a few dollars short on a rent payment. But the $35 overdraft charge, plus another $50 late fee to the rental company, sent Betty White down a deep financial hole. Another check bounced, then another, then another. By the time it was all over, White owed $600 in […...

05/25/2024

APF'S NOTABLE JOURNALISM OVER THE PAST 60 YEARS

Jill Freedman, a freelance photographer then based in Miami, spent her Patterson year documenting the Holocaust, 50 years later. She worked most of her life in New York City, documenting street life. Seven books were published of her photographs of the Poor People’s Campaign in 1968, New York firefighters, circus performers, street cops, Ireland and dogs. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the International Center of Photography, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the New York Public Library, among others. She died in 2019. A documentary film has been made of her life.

In the Lublin region, on November 2, 1943, an operation, given the code name "Harvest Festival" by the Germans, was begun...