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PHILLIPS FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES 2005 JOURNALISM FELLOWSHIPS -- EIGHT FELLOWSHIP AWARDS TOTALING $307,500

WASHINGTON, DC, May 11, 2005 -- The Phillips Foundation today announced eight winners of its twelfth annual journalism fellowship awards. 

Winners of five $50,000 full-time fellowships: Rachel DiCarlo, 24, a books and editorial assistant at The Weekly Standard; Jeffrey Jackson, 26, a writer for the Taunton Daily Gazette in Massachusetts; Anna Parachkevova, 24, a reporter for the Sentinel and Enterprise Daily in Fitchburg, Mass.; Judith Person, 27, a freelance writer in the Washington, D.C. area; and David Sanders, 30, a columnist and a television and radio commentator in Arkansas. 

Winners of two $25,000 part-time fellowships: Katherine Mangu-Ward, 24, an editorial assistant for New York Times columnist John Tierney; and Cara Hughes Marcano, 26, founding senior editor of Marketing Y Medios. 

Winner of a special $7,500 Alumni Fund fellowship: Heather Wilhelm, 27, a freelance writer in Illinois and director of communications for Americans for Limited Government. 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. Kate O’Beirne, Washington editor of National Review, served as guest speaker, and The Phillips Foundation presented its 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award to Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and former editor-in-chief of Reader’s Digest. 

The 2005 Phillips Foundation journalism fellows will work on the following projects which they proposed as part of their fellowship application. 

  • Rachel DiCarlo: “The Great Train Snobbery: Why Liberal Ideologues are Wrong About Rail Transit, Highways, SUVs, and the Suburbs.”
  • Jeffrey Jackson: “Equal Opportunity for Men: Why a Men’s Movement is Forming.”
  • Anna Parachkevova: “Democracy in the Birthplace of Communism.”
  • Judith Person: “Murder Capital: An Examination of D.C.’s Criminal Record.”
  • David Sanders: “The Reluctant Convert: Why Arkansas Has Not Joined the South’s Republican Realignment.”
  • Katherine Mangu-Ward: “How 25 Environmentalists Set Out to Save the Planet – and Wound Up Making Everyone’s Lives Just a Little Bit Worse.”
  • Cara Hughes Marcano: “A Path Out of Purgatory – How a Few State Programs are Building on the Reagan Legacy of Helping the Mentally Ill Transition from Silent Suffering to Independent Lives in Today’s America.”
  • Heather Wilhelm: “Unholy Alliance? Government, Religion, and Ideology 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 53 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/fellowship.htm.