The Alicia Patterson Foundation Program was established in 1965 in memory of Alicia Patterson, who was editor and publisher of Newsday for nearly 23 years before her death in 1963. One-year grants are awarded to working journalists to pursue independent projects of significant interest and to write articles based on their investigations for the The APF Reporter, a quarterly magazine published by the Foundation.
The Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism was created to spotlight news that is more than multimedia journalism. It specifically seeks to reward journalism that uses new technologies in innovative ways to involve people very actively in public choices by showing as well as telling, by providing access to news and information that stirs their imagination and invites participation.
