PHILLIPS FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES 2007 JOURNALISM FELLOWSHIPS; SEVEN FELLOWSHIP AWARDS TOTALING $237,500

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CONTACT: John Farley 202/250-3887, ext. 609

WASHINGTON, DC, May 9, 2007 -- The Phillips Foundation today announced seven winners of its fourteenth annual journalism fellowship awards.

Winners of three $50,000 full-time fellowships: Alexander Halperin, 28, a reporter at BusinessWeek.com in New York; Jacob Laksin, 26, staff writer and senior editor at FrontPageMag.com; and Cheryl Miller, 26, research assistant for David Brooks at The New York Times in Washington.

Winners of three $25,000 part-time fellowships: Ryan T. Anderson, 25, a junior fellow at First Things: The Journal of Religion, Culture and Public Life; Sonny Bunch, 24, assistant editor for books and arts at The Weekly Standard; and Michael Goldfarb, 26, deputy online editor at The Weekly Standard.

Winner of a special $12,500 Alumni Fund fellowship: Kathleen Monaghan, 23, who works at The Daily Gospel as director of the English version. The full-time and part-time fellowships are for year-long writing projects. The Alumni Fund Award is for one magazine-length article.

The fellowship winners were introduced during an awards dinner last night at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. At the dinner, The Phillips Foundation presented its 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award to Arnaud de Borchgrave, who served as editor in chief of The Washington Times and president and CEO of UPI after a 30-year career at Newsweek.

The 2007 Phillips Foundation journalism fellows will work on the following projects which they proposed as part of their fellowship application.

• Alexander Halperin: “Business off the Grid: Free Enterprise and the Brighter African Future.”
• Jacob Laksin: “Killing with Kindness: How Extreme Multiculturalism Impacts the War on Terror.”
• Cheryl Miller: “Modern Parenthood: How Biotechnology is Changing the American Family.”
• Ryan T. Anderson: “Reason and Religion in the Public Square” exploring the alleged chasm between faith and reason.
• Sonny Bunch: “The Biggest Lie: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories and the Consequences of Bad Ideas.”
• Michael Goldfarb: “The Upside of Global Warming.”
• Kathleen Monaghan: “Political Celebrities: Celebrating Mediocrity in America.”

The Phillips Foundation, a non-profit organization founded in 1990, established its journalism fellowship program to advance the cause of objective journalism. The Foundation has awarded 68 fellowships since 1994 for journalism projects supportive of American culture and a free society. The fellowship program is open to working print journalists with less than five years of professional experience. For more information, visit: www.thephillipsfoundation.org.

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