The Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Program
Applications for the 2010 Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Program are now being accepted. We thank you for your interest in our program. Please click on the links below for more information.
In 1994, The Phillips Foundation inaugurated the Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Program to award fellowship grants to working print and online journalists who share the Foundation's mission to advance constitutional principles, a democratic society and a vibrant free enterprise system. The fellowships are named in honor of Robert Novak, a Phillips Foundation founding trustee who provided the inspiration for this program. Applicants propose a one-year writing project on a topic of their choosing, focusing on journalism supportive of American culture and a free society. In addition, the Foundation awards separate fellowships on the environment, on free enterprise, and on law enforcement.
Print and online journalists with less than 10 years of professional experience are eligible to apply for the fellowship program. Annually, The Phillips Foundation awards full-time $75,000 platinum fellowships, full-time $50,000 gold fellowships, part-time $25,000 silver fellowships, and special Alumni Fund fellowships.
The application deadline for the 2010 Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Program is February 22, 2010. The next round of fellowship winners will be announced in the spring at the annual Phillips Foundation Awards Dinner held at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
During the course of the one-year fellowship, journalism projects are delivered in four quarterly installments with the potential to be published sequentially in a periodical or all together as a book.
2009 Fellowship Winners: Stephen Robert Morse, James Kirchick, Michael Dougherty, Katherine Truesdell, Robert VerBruggen, Sheryl Blunt, Evan Hill, Christian Lowe, Gary Emerling
and Reilly Capps
The Foundation awarded 10 fellowships in 2009 for the following projects: a gold full-time fellowship to Sheryl Blunt for "The Assault on School Choice: How Teachers Unions’ Opposition to Vouchers is Impacting America’s Most Vulnerable School Children;" a gold full-time fellowship to Michael Dougherty for "Blowup: The Contradictions of the Economic Crisis;" a gold full-time fellowship to Gary Emerling for "Police State or Probable Cause: The Employment, Effectiveness and Legal Validity of Law Enforcement Checkpoints in the United States;" a gold full-time fellowship to Evan Hill for "Sanctuary: How the Fate of One Troubled Policy is Shaping the Debate on Immigration;" a silver part-time fellowship to Reilly Capps for "The Continental Divide: How the West’s Geography Carves the Political and Cultural Future of America – or How the Nanny State Took Over the Wild West;" a silver part-time fellowship to James Kirchick for "Transnational Progressivism and the Threat to America;" a silver part-time fellowship to Christian Lowe for "Answering the Call: Why Some in ‘Generation Y’ Abandon a Life of Comfort and Prosperity to Risk Everything and Fight America’s Wars;" a silver part-time fellowship to Stephen Robert Morse for "My Two Census: Why the 2010 Census Could Become the Most Controversial Data-Gathering Process in History." The Foundation also awarded special $10,000 alumni fund fellowships to Katherine Truesdell for “Caught in the Web: An Exploration of the Left’s Power Online and What it Means for the Right” and Robert VerBruggen for “Race and the American Academy.”
For more information, please contact:
The Phillips Foundation
1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 620
Washington, DC 20001
Attn.: John Farley
(202) 250-3887, ext. 609
E-mail: jfarley@thephillipsfoundation.org
