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Phillips Foundation Announces Year 2002 Journalism Fellowships-Six Fellowship Awards Totaling $204,000

POTOMAC, Md., May 15, 2002 -- The Phillips Foundation today announced the winners of its ninth annual journalism fellowship awards. Damien Cave, a senior writer for Salon.com in San Francisco, Mark Hemingway, editor and communications director for the Hudson Institute, and Sam MacDonald, a reporter for Insight magazine, captured $50,000 full-time fellowships. Beth Henary, books and arts assistant at The Weekly Standard, and Jennifer Kabbany, an editor and page designer at The North County Times in Escondido, Calif., won $25,000 part-time fellowships. Jaime Sneider, a graduating senior at Columbia University, received a special $4,000 Alumni Fund Award. 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. William F. Buckley served as guest speaker at the dinner, where he was presented with The Phillips Foundation’s 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award. 

Cave, 27, will devote his fellowship to a study of the unintended consequences of the Cuban government’s effort to increase tourism. His project title is “Beach Blanket Capitalism.” Hemingway, 26, will examine the ideas and beliefs of young people in the anti-globalization movement in a project titled “The Young and the Reckless: Anti-Globalization, Resurrected Radicalism and its Un-American Roots.” MacDonald, 29, will do an in-depth analysis of “West Coast Environmentalism Moves East: The Sad Plight of Independent Loggers in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny National Forest.” Henary, 23, will explore the scaling back of racial preferences in college admissions in a project titled “No More Favorites?”. Kabbany, 26, will devote her fellowship year to “A Critical Analysis of the Facts and Myths Surrounding Abortion.” Sneider, 22, will write a magazine-length article on the topic of “Behind the Lion’s Gate: Columbia University More than 30 Years after the Riots.” 

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 30 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. 

The Trustees of the Phillips Foundation serve as judges for the competition. The Trustees are: Thomas L. Phillips, President of Phillips International, Inc.; Robert D. Novak, prominent national journalist and author of one of the longest running syndicated columns in the country; Alfred S. Regnery, President of Regnery Publishing, Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based book publishing firm; Donald P. Hodel, Managing Director of Summit Energy Group and former Secretary of both Interior and Energy during the Reagan Administration; and Thomas A. Fuentes, Senior Vice President of Tait & Associates in Orange County, Calif.