REMINDER/Phillips Foundation Announces 2004 Journalism Fellowship Award Winners.

News Editors/Assignment Desks

REMINDER...for Tuesday (May 11)

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Phillips Foundation

DATE:     Tuesday, May 11, 2004

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 eleventh annual
          journalism fellowships to seven 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.  The late Robert L.
          Bartley will receive this year's Phillips Foundation
          Lifetime Achievement Award, and Tony Snow, host of The Tony
          Snow Show on Fox News Radio, will serve as keynote speaker
          at the event.

$50,000 Gold Awards (Full-time Fellowships)

Jesse DeConto, a reporter and editor at Seacoast Newspapers in New Hampshire for the past three years, for his project, titled "Nueva Frontera... the New South: Latino Immigrants in North Carolina."

Joshua Kwan, Metro reporter at the San Jose Mercury News, for his project, titled "In the Shadows Cast by North Korea: An Examination of the People, Politics, and Economic Forces at Work Along the Borders of the Hermit Kingdom."

Diana Marrero, a staff writer at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, for her project, titled "Thriving Ties: An Exploration of the Connections between People in the United States and Cuba despite a Decades-old Embargo and What These Ties Mean for Future Relations between the Two Countries."

Mollie Ziegler, a staff writer at the Federal Times, for her book-length project, titled "Interfaith is No Faith: How Religious Relativism is Destroying the Church."

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

Jeff Chu, a staff writer for Time magazine in London, for his project on why America has developed a culture of complaint, titled "Whine Country: Complaint in American Life."

Rich Trzupek, a columnist and reporter for Examiner Publications in Chicago's northwest suburbs, for his project, titled "An Examination of the Effect of Environmental Regulatory Excess on Small to Mid-size Business, in the Context of 30 Years of Continued Environmental Progress in the United States."

Special $7,000 Alumni Fund Award

Megan Basham, senior editor at Christ's Church of the Valley in Arizona, for a magazine-length article on the topic, "The Parable Principle: How Liberal Ideologues Use Film to Control Political Discourse."

CONTACT: To cover the event, contact Jennifer Myers at 301-340-7788, ext. 6120 or 240-997-9531 (cell); [e-mail] by 1 p.m. on May 11, 2004.