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PHILLIPS FOUNDATION SEEKS APPLICANTS FOR JOURNALISM FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM. Working Journalists Eligible for $50,000

Washington, DC, October 19, 2005 -- The Phillips Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2006 Phillips Foundation Journalism Fellowship Program. Working journalists with less than five years of professional experience in print journalism are eligible. The Foundation created this program to provide fellowships for projects to be undertaken by journalists who share the Foundation's mission to advance constitutional principles, a democratic society and a vibrant free enterprise system. 

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 to the regular fellowships, the Foundation awards the following special fellowships: The Environmental Fellowship for a project on the environment from a free market perspective; The Gilder Lehrman Journalism Fellowship for a project on American history and the principles of the American founding; and The Law Enforcement Fellowship for a project focusing on law enforcement in the United States. 

In 2005, the Foundation awarded eight fellowships: a full-time fellowship to Rachel DiCarlo for "The Great Train Snobbery: Why Liberal Ideologues are Wrong About Rail Transit, Highways, SUVs, and the Suburbs;" a full-time fellowship to Jeffrey Jackson for "Equal Opportunity for Men: Why a Men's Movement is Forming;" a full-time fellowship to Anna Parachkevova to spend a year in Russia to examine "Democracy in the Birthplace of Communism;" a full-time fellowship to Judith Person for "Murder Capital: An Examination of D.C.'s Criminal Record;" a full-time fellowship to David Sanders for "The Reluctant Convert: Why Arkansas Has Not Joined the South's Republican Realignment;" a part-time fellowship to Katherine Mangu-Ward for "How 25 Environmentalists Set Out to Save the Planet -- and Wound Up Making Everyone's Lives 

Just a Little Bit Worse;" a part-time fellowship to Cara Hughes Marcano for "A Path Out 

of Purgatory -- How a Few State Programs are Building on the Reagan Legacy of Helping the Mentally Ill Transition from Silent Suffering to Independent Lives in Today's America;" and a special fellowship to Heather Wilhelm to write a magazine-length article on "Unholy Alliance -- Government, Religion, and Ideology in America." (For a list of all 53 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., and Eagle Publishing, 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 in a periodical or as a book. 


Applications must be postmarked by March 1, 2006. 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, 2006. Applicants must be citizens of the United States. 

For an application, visit www.thephillipsfoundation.org, or contact: The Phillips Foundation, 1 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 610, Washington, DC 20001, Attention: John Farley. Phone: 202-250-3887, ext. 609. E-mail: jfarley@phillips.com.