ADVISORY/Phillips Foundation Announces 2003 Journalism Fellowship Award Winners.

News Editors/Assignment Desks

ADVISORY...for Tuesday (May 13)

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Phillips Foundation

DATE:       Tuesday, May 13, 2003

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 tenth annual
            journalism fellowships to eight 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.  Robert D. Novak 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)

-- Tim Carney, reporter for Evans & Novak and a columnist for

Brainwash, for his project, titled "Regulatory Robber Barons."

-- Mario Fantini, communications consultant for the World Bank in

La Paz, Bolivia, for his project on the cultural and political

transformation of the State of Vermont from a conservative,

Republican state to a liberal, Democratic one.

-- Mike Porath, a producer for The New York Times on the Web, for

his project, titled "Pulling Up the Roots of Terrorism: The

Struggle for Reform in Saudi Arabia."

-- Evelina Shmukler, a reporter for Dow Jones Newswires in

London, for her project, titled "Pyramid Scheme: The Pitfalls

and Possibilities of U.S. Economic Aid to Egypt."

$25,000 Silver Awards (Part-time Fellowships)

-- Paul Crespo, a columnist for The Miami Herald, for his

project, titled "Dueling Allegiances: The Impact of 9-11 on

Multiculturalism and Patriotism in America."

-- Brett Decker, editorial board member for The Washington Times,

for his project, titled "Terror's Backyard: The New Threat to

America from Southeast Asia."

-- Andrea Seton Kirk, a freelance journalist in Rome and Middle

East correspondent for Inside the Vatican magazine, for her

project, titled "The Pontificate of John Paul II and the

Administration of George W. Bush: Points of Convergence and

Divergence in Social and Foreign Policy."

Special $6,000 Alumni Fund Award

-- Mark Stricherz, a freelance journalist in Washington, D.C.,

for a magazine-length article on the topic, "The Rise of the

Latte Liberals: How the Democrats Embraced Identity Politics

and Abandoned their New Deal Base."