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Phillips Foundation Seeks Applicants For Journalism Fellowship Program

Potomac, MD, November 6, 2001 -- The Phillips Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2002 Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellowship Program. Working journalists with less than five years of professional experience in print journalism are eligible. The Phillips Foundation awards full-time $50,000 fellowships and part-time $25,000 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. 

The Foundation established this annual fellowship program in 1994 to provide grants for projects to be undertaken by working print journalists who share the Foundation's mission to advance constitutional principles, a democratic society and a vibrant free enterprise system. In 2001, the Foundation awarded four fellowships: a full-time fellowship to Catherine Edwards Sanders to explore the spread of Wicca and goddess worship among young women in America; a full-time fellowship to Naomi Schaefer to examine the recent increase in enrollment at religion-based colleges and universities when there is a growing hostility toward students of faith at many secular public and private institutions; a part-time fellowship to Tony Mecia to study the impact of anti-sprawl policies on cities across the nation; and a part-time fellowship to Pamela Winnick to examine why there is little tolerance for the teaching of creationism in America. (For a complete list of all 24 fellowship winners and their projects since inception of the program, visit our web site at www.thephillipsfoundation.org.) 

Three of The Phillips Foundation Trustees serve as judges for this annual competition. The judges include: Thomas L. Phillips, Chairman of Phillips International, Inc.; Robert D. Novak, prominent national journalist and author of one of the longest running syndicated columns in the country; and Alfred S. Regnery, a Washington attorney and President of Regnery Publishing, Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based book publishing firm. 

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 are now being accepted for the 2002 Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellowships. Applications must be postmarked by March 1, 2002. The winners will be announced next May at an awards dinner in Washington, D.C., with William F. Buckley as the guest speaker. The starting date for the fellowships will be September 1, 2002. Applicants must be citizens of the United States. 

For an application, visit our web site at www.thephillipsfoundation.org