ADVISORY/Phillips Foundation Announces 2002 Journalism Fellowship Award Winners.News & Assignment Editors ADVISORY...Tuesday (May 14) --(BUSINESS WIRE) The Phillips Foundation DATE: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 TIME: 6:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. PLACE: National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, Washington, D.C. SUBJECT: The Phillips Foundation will award its ninth annual journalism fellowships to six winners during an awards dinner. The fellowships are given to working journalists with less than five years of professional experience in print journalism so they can complete a one-year project of their choosing, focusing on journalism supportive of American culture and a free society. William F. Buckley will receive this year's Phillips Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award and will serve as keynote speaker at the event. $50,000 Gold Awards (Full-time Fellowships) Damien Cave, senior writer for Salon.com in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , for his project, titled "Beach Blanket Capitalism." Mark Hemingway, editor and communications director for the Hudson Institute The Hudson Institute is a corporatist-leaning U.S. think tank, founded in 1961 in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, by the futurist Herman Kahn and other colleagues from the RAND Corporation. in Washington, for his project, titled "The Young and the Reckless: Anti-Globalization, Resurrected Radicalism and its Un-American Roots." Sam MacDonald, a reporter at Insight Magazine, for his project, titled "West Coast Environmentalism environmentalism, movement to protect the quality and continuity of life through conservation of natural resources, prevention of pollution, and control of land use. Moves East: The Sad Plight of Independent Loggers in Pennsylvania's Allegheny National Forest The Allegheny National Forest is a National Forest located in northwestern Pennsylvania. The forest covers over 500,000 acres (2,000 km²) of land. Within the forest is the Kinzua Dam, which created the Allegheny Reservoir. ." $25,000 Silver Awards (Part-time Fellowships) Beth Henary, books and arts assistant at The Weekly Standard, for her project, titled "No More Favorites?" Jennifer Kabbany, editor and page designer at The North County Times in Escondido, Calif., for her project, titled "A Critical Analysis of the Facts and Myths Surrounding Abortion." Special $4,000 Alumni Fund Award Jaime Sneider, a May 2002 Columbia University Columbia University, mainly in New York City; founded 1754 as King's College by grant of King George II; first college in New York City, fifth oldest in the United States; one of the eight Ivy League institutions. graduate, who has served as editorial page editor and columnist for the Columbia Daily Spectator Columbia Daily Spectator is the daily newspaper, written by Columbia University undergraduates, servicing the university community and the neighborhood of Morningside Heights. It is published in the Spectator Building at 112th and Broadway in New York, New York. and as news director and host of Late City Live at WKCR Radio, for a magazine-length article on the topic, "Behind the Lion's Gate: Columbia University More Than 30 Years after the Riots." The Phillips Foundation, a non-profit organization A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. founded in 1990, promotes the cause of objective journalism through its Journalism Fellowship Program. The Foundation's mission is to advance constitutional principles, a democratic society and a vibrant free enterprise system. |
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