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$75,000, $50,000 and $25,000 JOURNALISM FELLOWSHIPS OFFERED BY THE PHILLIPS FOUNDATION FOR 2009

Washington, DC, October 20, 2008 -- The Phillips Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2009 Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellowship Program. Print and online journalists with less than 10 years of professional experience are eligible. The Foundation created this program to provide fellowships for projects by journalists who share the Foundation's mission to advance constitutional principles, a democratic society and a vibrant free enterprise system. 

The Phillips Foundation awards $75,000 and $50,000 full-time fellowships and $25,000 part-time fellowships to undertake and complete a one-year project of the applicant's choosing focusing on journalism supportive of American culture and a free society. In addition, there are separate fellowships on the environment, on the benefits of free-market competition, and on law enforcement. 

In 2008, the Foundation awarded the following eight fellowships. 

  • Full-time fellowships to: David Donadio for “The Free Press in the Free Market: A Study of How the Internet is Transforming the Newspaper Business;” Travis Kavulla for “Africa’s New Christianity and the Future of American Influence;” Emily Krone for “Unchartered Territory: Can Entrepreneurial Charter Schools Achieve the Scale and Sustain the Quality to Transform the American Public School System‌;” and Lygia Navarro for “Civil Society and Democracy in Latin America.”
  • Part-time fellowships to: Cheryl Chumley for “National Heritage Areas: A Blot against Property Rights or a Boon for the Nation‌;” Matthew Continetti for “The Single Society: The Social Transformation Changing American Business, Politics and Culture;” J. Peter Freire for “The University Shakedown: How Universities Take Donations but Refuse Input from Donors Based on the Myth of Academic Freedom;” and Jonathan Last for “The Fertility Rate and America’s Future.”


For a list of all 76 fellowship winners and their projects since inception of the program in 1994, visit www.thephillipsfoundation.org/fellowship_profiles. 

Three Phillips Foundation Trustees serve as judges: Thomas L. Phillips, Chairman of Eagle Publishing, Inc.; Robert D. Novak, long-time national journalist and syndicated columnist; and Alfred S. Regnery, Publisher of The American Spectator. 

The Foundation is looking for journalism projects which are both original and publishable. The winning projects will be delivered in four installments with the potential to be published sequentially in a periodical or as a book. 

Applications must be postmarked by March 2, 2009. The winners will be announced next May at an awards dinner at the National Press Club in Washington. The starting date for the fellowships will be September 1, 2009. Applicants must be citizens of the United States. 

For an application, visit www.thephillipsfoundation.org, or contact: The Phillips Foundation, 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 620, Washington, DC 20001, Attention: John Farley. Phone: 202-250-3887, ext. 609. E-mail: jfarley@thephillipsfoundation.org.