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PHILLIPS FOUNDATION SEEKS APPLICANTS FOR 2005 JOURNALISM FELLOWSHIP ON LAW ENFORCEMENT

WASHINGTON, DC., January 27, 2005 — The Phillips Foundation announced today that it is launching a Journalism Fellowship on Law Enforcement in partnership with the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund. Working journalists with less than five years of professional experience in print journalism are eligible. The Phillips Foundation plans to award either a $50,000 full-time fellowship or a $25,000 part-time fellowship for a one-year writing project focusing on some aspect of law enforcement in the United States. Applicants are invited to submit their own proposal with a law enforcement theme as part of their application for this special fellowship. 

Since 1994, the Phillips Foundation has awarded fellowships for writing projects undertaken by working print journalists who share the Foundation’s mission to advance constitutional principles, a democratic society and a vibrant free enterprise system. Winners undertake and complete a one-year project of their choosing focusing on journalism supportive of American culture and a free society. The Foundation also awards fellowships in specific topic areas. In addition to the new Law Enforcement Fellowship, the Foundation awards separate fellowships for writing projects on the environment and on American history. (For a list of all 45 fellowship winners and their projects since inception of the program, visit www.thephillipsfoundation.org.) 

Three Phillips Foundation Trustees serve as judges: Thomas L. Phillips, Chairman of Phillips International, Inc.; Robert D. Novak, prominent 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 as a book. 

Applications are now being accepted for the 2005 Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellowships. Applications must be postmarked by March 1, 2005. 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, 2005. Applicants must be citizens of the United States. 

For an application, visit www.thephillipsfoundation.org, or contact: The Phillips Foundation, One Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001, Attention: John Farley. Phone: 202/842-2002, ext. 609. E-mail: jfarley@phillips.com.