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THE PHILLIPS FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES 2010 ROBERT NOVAK JOURNALISM FELLOWSHIPS

WASHINGTON, DC, May 12, 2010 - - The Phillips Foundation today announced 10 winners of its 17th annual Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Awards. 

Winners of two $50,000 full-time fellowships: Aleksandra Kulczuga, 29, reporter at Tucker Carlson’s The Daily Caller; Maura O’Connor, 28, reporter at The New York Post. 

Winners of seven $25,000 part-time fellowships: Scott Thomas Anderson, 33, reporter at the Amador (Calif.) Ledger Dispatch; Amy Bushatz, 25, freelance reporter in Lakewood, Wash.; Jessica Corry, 31, columnist at the Colorado Springs Gazette; Elise Jordan, 28, freelance writer in New York; David Keyes, 26, freelance journalist in New York; William McMorris, 24, staff writer at the Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity in Chicago; Peter Suderman, 28, associate editor at Reason magazine. 

Winner of one special $10,000 alumni fund fellowship: Thomas Sileo, 30, a freelance journalist in Atlanta. 

The fellowship winners were introduced during an awards dinner last night at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The Phillips Foundation paid special tribute to the late Robert Novak for his inspirational leadership and dedication to the program as a founding trustee. The 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Thomas S. Winter to honor his distinguished career in journalism as longtime editor in chief of Human Events. 

The 2010 Robert Novak Journalism fellows will work on the following projects which they proposed as part of their fellowship application.

  • Scott Thomas Anderson: “Shadow People: How Meth-Driven Crime is Eating at the Heart of Rural America.”
  • Amy Bushatz: “Deployed: The Silent Sacrifice for Freedom and the Destruction of the Military Family.”
  • Jessica Corry: “Victim Nation: How We Can Rescue Our Children from America’s Oppression-Inventing, Self-Hating, Overspending, Multi-Billion Dollar Diversity Industry.”
  • Elise Jordan: “Muslim Girls and Women as Equal Americans: Crimes against Women under the Guise of Political Islam and Tribal Custom are a Human Rights Tragedy Abhorrent to American Values and Law.”
  • David Keyes: “The Impact of Technology on Democratic Dissent,” will investigate how technology, and the Internet in particular, have impacted the phenomenon of democratic dissent.
  • Aleksandra Kulczuga: “Our Allies and Our Exit Strategy: Poland’s Contribution to the War on Terror.”
  • William McMorris: “Fraud by any Other Name: Public Pension Neglect and the Coming Panic.”
  • Maura O’Connor: “Misguided Benevolence: Three Case Studies in American Aid,” will examine free-market policy alternatives to tackle poverty and instability abroad.
  • Thomas Sileo: “The Unknown Soldiers: How the Media Celebrates American Idols and Ignores American Heroes.”
  • Peter Suderman: “Markets in Medicine: The Virtues of Free Enterprise in Medical Practice.”

The Phillips Foundation, a non-profit organization founded in 1990, established its Journalism Fellowship Program to advance the cause of objective journalism. The program was named in honor of Robert Novak following his passing last summer. The Foundation has awarded 95 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.thephillipsfoundation.org/fellowship.