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Phillips Foundation Awards Eight Fellowships for 2005

The Phillips Foundation announced eight winners of its 12th annual journalism fellowship awards at a gala dinner at the National Press Club on May 10.

Kate O'Beirne, Washington editor of National Review, was the dinner speaker, and Phillips Foundation President Thomas L. Phillips presented the foundation's 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award to Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and former editor in chief of Reader's Digest.

Winners of five $50,000 full-time fellowships are: Rachel DiCarlo, 24, an assistant editor at the Weekly Standard', Jeffrey Jackson, 26, a writer for the Taunton (Mass.) Daily Gazette; Anna Parachkevova, 24, a reporter for the Sentinel and Enterprise Daily in Fitchburg, Mass.; judith Person, 27, a freelance writer in the Washington, D.C., area; and David Sanders, 30, a columnist and television and radio commentator in Arkansas.

The winners of two $25,000 part-time fellowships are: Katherine Mangu-Ward, 24, an editorial assistant for New York Times columnist John Tierney; and Cara Hughes Marcano, 26, founding senior editor of Marketing y Medios.

Winning the $7,500 Alumni Fund fellowship was Heather Wilhelm, 27, a freelance writer in Illinois and director of communications for Americans for Limited Government.

The full-time and part-time fellowships are for year long writing projects. The Alumni Fund award is for a magazine-length article.

The fellows will work on the following projects, which they proposed as part of their fellowship applications:

* DiCarlo: "The Great Train Snobbery: Why Liberal Ideologues Are Wrong About Rail Transit, Highways, SUVs, and the Suburbs."

* Jackson: "Equal Opportunity for Men: Why a Men's Movement Is Forming."

* Parachkevova: "Democracy in the Birthplace of Communism."

* Person: "Murder Capital: An Examination of D.C.'s Criminal Record."

* Sanders: "The Reluctant Convert: Why Arkansas Has Not Joined the South's Republican Realignment."

* Mangu-Ward: "How 25 Environmentalists Set Out to Save the Planet-and Wound Up Making Everyone's Lives Just a Little Bit Worse."

* Marcano: "A Path Out of Purgatory-How a Few State Programs are Building on the Reagan Legacy of Helping the Mentally 111 Transition from Silent Suffering to Independent Lives in Today's America."

* Wilhelm: "Unholy Alliance? Government, Religion, and Ideology in America."

Since 1994, the Phillips Foundation has awarded 53 fellowships for journalism projects supportive of American culture and a free society. The fellowship program is open to working print journalists with less than five years of professional experience. For more information, visit www.ThePhillipsFoundation.org/fellowship.htm.

Group Publisher, Ad Director Take Reins at Human Events

Eagle Publishing, the parent company of HUMAN EVENTS, has named Stephen O'Connor to be its new vice president and group publisher. O'Connor, 42, returned to the United States in May after a successful stint as publisher of the Budapest Business Journal, which grew to include editions in Warsaw, Poland, and Prague, Czech Republic, under his watch.

During his time in Hungary, O'Connor also launched a Hungarian-language version of the BBJ.

At Eagle, O'Connor will be responsible for overseeing all Eagle periodicals, including HUMAN EVENTS, Evans-Novak Political Report, Forecasts & Strategies, Skousen Hedge Fund Trader, Skousen High-Income Alert and the soon-to-belaunched Skousen Turnaround Trader.

O'Connor is originally from the Philadelphia area, and is currently relocating his family-wife Jade and daughter Reagan-to Washington from Budapest.

In addition to O'Connor, HUMAN EVENTS also has a new advertising director and managing editor.

Brian Knott, 32, will now handle all advertising for the publication. he joined Eagle in April after partnering with the HomeTown Guide of Princeton, N.J.. to expand its operations to Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. he previously spent five years at Haas Publishing Company, where he managed its sales efforts in the Washington, D.C., area.

Robert B. Bluey, 25, was named managing editor of HUMAN EVENTS after serving as assistant editor since November. he joined the publication after working for the Media Research Center's newswire, Cybercast News Service, where he was the first journalist last September to report on the forged CBS News documents relating to President Bush's service in the National Guard.

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