Congratulations to Esther Kaplan! Esther wrote this winning piece under her APF fellowship and it appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review. http://www.texasobserver.org/molly-prize-archives/ The Molly National Journalism Prize—Recognizing Superior Journalism in the Tradition of Molly Ivins!
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The Daily BeastThe Louisiana Nazis Who Courted Steve Scalise 1-03-15by Jason Berry Kenny Knight and Howie Farrell, the two men at the heart of the Steve Scalise scandal, were well known in Louisiana politics as longtime operatives of Duke’s Holocaust-denying hate machine. In 1989, a newly registered Republican in Louisiana named David Duke won his only election by a fluke.
Post date: Sun, 2015-02-15 18:08
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Recently published books from Alicia Patterson Fellows. The Alicia Patterson Foundation is proud to announce the release of four new books from past fellows. Links to the books’ Amazon pages are listed below.
Post date: Tue, 2013-08-13 19:05
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APF Fellow Donna DeCesare has just released her first book Unsettled/Desasosiego: Children in a World of Gangs. Some of the original work for this book was done during Ms. DeCesare’s 1997 fellowship. The book is a bi-lingual memoir of Ms. DeCesare’s time photographing gang-life in Central America. Ms. DeCesare’s fellowship title was “Youth Identity and Gang Violence in the Americas.” Her fellowship work covered life during and after gang participation in countries from Haiti to El Salvador.
Post date: Wed, 2013-04-24 09:21
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APF fellow Brian Mockenhaupt's article on Sgt. First Class Carlos Santos-Silva is featured in the March 2011 issue of Reader's Digest. Titled, "The Men He Left Behind," it focuses on the U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan and their reaction to the combat death of Santos, their platoon sergeant. Brian served two earlier deployments with Santos, 32, in Iraq.
Post date: Sun, 2011-03-06 20:38
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Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns' new series on baseball, "The Tenth Inning," features sportswriter Marcos Breton as a commentator for the PBS series. Marcos, along with photographer Jose Luis Villegas, researched Latin American players for their 1996 Alicia Patterson foundation project, "Lost Field of Dreams: The Forgotten Legacy of Latins in American Baseball.
Post date: Wed, 2010-09-29 15:52
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Mark Feldstein's new book, "Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington's Scandal Culture" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) was reviewed in the Books of the Times. An earlier Washington Post profile was written by Howard Kurtz. A 2009 Alicia Patterson Fellowship provided research funds for Mark. To read Dwight Garner's book review, go to: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/29/books/29book.html.
Post date: Wed, 2010-09-29 15:31
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