Alicia Patterson Foundation

APF'S NOTABLE JOURNALISM OVER THE PAST 60 YEARS

Writer Emily MacFarquhar researched the life and career of Benazir Bhutto during her fellowship year. A writer who focused on China and South Asia, she contributed expert articles for more than two decades to The Economist. The magazine published her policy booklet, “China: Mao’s Last Leap.” Earlier in her career, she worked for British television and U.S. News & World Report. She died in March, 2001 at her home in Cambridge, MA.

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APF'S NOTABLE JOURNALISM OVER THE PAST 60 YEARS

Mary Kane, now senior editor at the News Literacy Project, a nonpartisan education nonprofit. She focused on predatory finance firms and financial literacy during her fellowship year.

Skipping Banks: The New World of Prepaid Cards for Victims of High Fees - Mary Kane It began with just one bad check, a few dollars short on a rent payment. But the $35 overdraft charge, plus another $50 late fee to the rental company, sent Betty White down a deep financial hole. Another check bounced, then another, then another. By the time it was all over, White owed $600 in […...

APF'S NOTABLE JOURNALISM OVER THE PAST 60 YEARS

Jill Freedman, a freelance photographer then based in Miami, spent her Patterson year documenting the Holocaust, 50 years later. She worked most of her life in New York City, documenting street life. Seven books were published of her photographs of the Poor People’s Campaign in 1968, New York firefighters, circus performers, street cops, Ireland and dogs. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the International Center of Photography, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the New York Public Library, among others. She died in 2019. A documentary film has been made of her life.

Survivors - Jill Freedman In the Lublin region, on November 2, 1943, an operation, given the code name "Harvest Festival" by the Germans, was begun...