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PHILLIPS FOUNDATION SEEKS APPLICANTS FOR 2005 JOURNALISM FELLOWSHIPS - Announces Inaugural Gilder Lehrman Journalism Fellowship

The Phillips Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2005 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. In addition, the Foundation awards a separate Environmental Fellowship each year for a writing project on the environment with a free-market perspective. 

The Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of a special Gilder Lehrman Journalism Fellowship in 2005 funded by a matching grant from The Gilder Foundation founded by Richard Gilder. The Gilder Lehrman Journalism Fellowship will be awarded for a writing project focusing on American history and principles of the American founding. 

The fellowships are awarded for 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. In 2004, the Foundation awarded the following fellowships: a full-time fellowship to Jesse DeConto to focus on the fastest growing Latino community in the nation in a project titled “Nueva Frontera… the New South: Latino Immigrants in North Carolina;” a full-time fellowship to Diana Marrero to examine “Thriving Ties: An Exploration of the Connections between People in the United States and Cuba despite a Decades-old Embargo and What These Ties Mean for Future Relations between the Two Countries;” a full-time fellowship to Mollie Ziegler to work on a book-length project titled “Interfaith is No Faith: How Religious Relativism is Destroying the Church;” a part-time fellowship to Jeff Chu to investigate why America has developed a culture of complaint in a project titled “Whine Country: Complaint in American Life;” a part-time fellowship to Rich Trzupek to pursue “An Examination of the Effect of Environmental Regulatory Excess on Small to Mid-size Businesses, in the Context of 30 Years of Continued Environmental Progress in the United States;” and a special fellowship to Megan Basham to write a magazine-length article on “The Parable Principle: How Liberal Ideologues Use Film to Control Political Discourse.” (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, 7811 Montrose Road, Potomac, MD 20854, Attention: John Farley. Phone: 301-340-7788, ext. 6090. E-mail: jfarley@phillips.com.