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THE PHILLIPS FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES 2011 ROBERT NOVAK JOURNALISM FELLOWSHIP AWARDS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:  John Farley 202-677-4609

 

THE PHILLIPS FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES

2011 ROBERT NOVAK JOURNALISM FELLOWSHIP AWARDS

NINE FELLOWSHIPS TOTALING $240,000

 

WASHINGTON, DC, May 18, 2011 - - The Phillips Foundation today announced nine winners of its 18th annual Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Awards. 

 

            Winners of two $50,000 full-time fellowships:  Meg McDonnell, 26, blogger at CatholicMatch.com and a religion teacher at Carmel Catholic High School in Mundelein, Ill; and Jillian Melchior, 24, a freelance Journalist in New York City.

 

            Winners of five $25,000 part-time fellowships: Max Borders, 37, executive editor at Free To Choose Network and a blogger for The Washington Examiner; Nathan Harden, 30, a freelance journalist in Nashville and a blogger for National Review Online; Daniel Indiviglio, 30, associate editor, blogger, reporter and producer at The Atlantic; John McCormack, 26, a staff writer at The Weekly Standard; and Ashley McGuire, 25, director of programs at The Beckett Fund for Religious Liberty.

 

            Winners of two $7,500 alumni fund fellowships:  Tony Gonzalez, 25, city editor at The News Virginian in Waynesboro, Va.; and Charles Johnson, 22, a Harrison Fellow at Claremont McKenna College who will graduate this month with a B.A. in government and economics.

 

            The fellowship winners were introduced during an awards dinner last night at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.  The 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Dr. Charles Krauthammer to honor his distinguished media career.  Dr. Krauthammer is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist, political commentator and physician.  News Corporation provided major sponsorship of the event.

 

            The 2011 Robert Novak Journalism fellows will work on the following projects which they proposed as part of their fellowship application.

 

  •  Max Borders: “Superwealth:  Why we Should Stop Worrying About the ‘Gap’ Between Rich and Poor and Start Celebrating Wealth Creation.”

 

  • Tony Gonzalez: “Buying Barbecue Sauce by the Truckload:  How Entrepreneurs Find Profit in the Uncertain World of Lost and Unclaimed Freight.”

 

  • Nathan Harden: “The Higher-Ed Bubble:  The Sad Sorry Story of How the Government Over-subsidized Student Loans and Produced a Generation of Under-educated, Over-credentialed, Debt-saddled Graduates Who Can’t Find a Job.”

 

  • Daniel Indiviglio: “Fixing the U.S. Mortgage Market:  How Less Government Will Make it Stronger and More Stable.”

 

  • Charles Johnson: “Enemies, Domestic:  An Investigation into the Appeasement of Evil by America’s Colleges.”

 

  • John McCormack: “Citizens Divided:  How the Supreme Court’s 2010 Campaign Finance Ruling has Affected American Politics.”

 

  • Meg McDonnell: “Marriage and Young Adults:  Understanding the American Struggle to Get to ‘I do.’”

 

  • Ashley McGuire:  “The End of Women:  The Cultural Disempowerment of Girls, College Students, Mothers and Poor Women.”

 

  • Jillian Melchior:  “Cross Cultural China.”

 

            The Phillips Foundation, a non-profit organization founded in 1990, established its Journalism Fellowship Program to advance the cause of objective journalism. Following his passing in 2009, the program was named in honor of Robert Novak, a Phillips Foundation founding trustee.  The Foundation has awarded 103 fellowships since 1994 for journalism projects supportive of American culture and a free society.  The Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Program is open to print and online journalists with less than 10 years of professional experience.  For more information, visit:  www.novakfellowships.org.

 

 

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