May 15, 2012 / Foreign Policy
Anna Sussman

Prostitution is still legal in Turkey, but this Muslim country is cracking down on the sex trade.

May 15, 2012 / PRI's The World
Dan Grossman

Mongolia has warmed roughly four degrees Fahrenheit—more than almost anywhere else on Earth. The resulting erratic weather threatens the nomadic, pastoral lifestyle of half of Mongolia's population.

May 15, 2012 / Untold Stories
Peter DiCampo, Austin Merrill

Pulitzer Center grantees Austin Merrill and Peter DiCampo capture images of daily life in Ivory Coast through their iPhones.

The Kazakhstan military band performs at KADEX. Image by Joshua Kucera.
May 10, 2012 / Untold Stories
Joshua Kucera

Kazakhstan's ambitious president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, is spending freely on new weapons. He also wants his country to build a world-class armaments industry.

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Published and Broadcast

Reports by Pulitzer Center journalists for print, online and broadcast news outlets
May 15, 2012 / Foreign Policy Anna Sussman
Prostitution is still legal in Turkey, but this Muslim country is cracking down on the sex trade.
May 15, 2012 / PRI's The World Dan Grossman
Mongolia has warmed roughly four degrees Fahrenheit—more than almost anywhere else on Earth. The resulting erratic weather threatens the nomadic, pastoral lifestyle of half of Mongolia's population.
May 14, 2012 / Newsweek Trevor Snapp
A refugee camp in South Sudan overflows with orphans fleeing bombs and starvation.

Untold Stories

Reports from the field - an exclusive channel of Pulitzer Center reporting
May 16, 2012
Tim Rogers
Nicaragua's new family code defines marriage as a union between man and woman. To embarrass the lawmakers, gay rights activist Marvin Mayorga threatens to "out" 20 closeted congressmen.
May 16, 2012 Kathryn Joyce
Short waiting periods and high availability of young children have made Ethiopia an international adoption hot spot. Babies have become a major "export" but corruption is rampant.
May 15, 2012 Peter DiCampo, Austin Merrill
Pulitzer Center grantees Austin Merrill and Peter DiCampo capture images of daily life in Ivory Coast through their iPhones.

Projects

Reporting projects commissioned by the Pulitzer Center
Joshua Kucera
Oil in the Caspian Sea is making Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan rich. But with Iran and Russia on the sea, too, is it fueling a naval arms race as well?
Austin Merrill, Peter DiCampo
In Ivory Coast—the world’s top cocoa producer—cocoa farmers bore the brunt of a civil war that killed thousands and displaced more than a million. A year after a power transfer, has anything changed?
Tim Rogers
Back in power since 2007, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is leading what he claims is a “second phase of the Sandinista revolution.” Some fear Nicaragua is repeating a cycle of social unrest.

Gateways

Gateways contain multiple Pulitzer Center reporting projects that focus on a single issue
A collaborative investigation into the water sector in Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Liberia in partnership with local journalists and their outlets.
From the gold in our jewelry to the shrimp at our favorite restaurant and the minerals within our electronics, the true cost of production—both social and environmental—too often remains hidden.
The initial shock of the earthquake has passed but Haiti continues its struggle to overcome both man-made and natural disasters.

Education

Global Gateway inspires students to become active consumers and producers of news and information
May 16, 2012
Joshua Kucera
Grantee Joshua Kucera talks about the new arms race among the five Caspian countries, the unprecedented militarization of this "sea of peace" and what's really behind it.
May 7, 2012 Bobby Bascomb
Pulitzer Center grantee Bobby Bascomb visited Senegal to look at the progress of Africa's Great Green Wall, a project aimed at slowing the desertification of the Sahel region.
May 2, 2012 Jennifer McDonald, Jen Marlowe
Materials for teachers and students ahead of filmmaker Jen Marlowe's visit.

Blog

News and views from the Pulitzer Center team
May 16, 2012 Jennifer McDonald
Global health journalism is not an easy sell in today's media market. The Pulitzer Center is working to change that thinking.
May 16, 2012 Aria Curtis
Former President Jimmy Carter highlights Helen Branswell's Polio reporting when speaking to a group of health journalists in Atlanta.
May 15, 2012 Monsicha 'Sam' Hoonsuwan
Ameto Akpe's presentation on water management in Nigeria is highlighted on the New Security Beat, a blog hosted by the Wilson Center's Environmental Change and Security Program.

Campus Consortium

Our Campus Consortium initiative forges dynamic relationships with colleges and universities
One of our earliest "journalist tours" included a stop at the University of Miami with a focus on under-told stories from South America.
Boston University is one of the Consortium partners that has experimented with diverse ways of linking Pulitzer Center journalists with BU students, faculty and the broader community.
In 2010, The George Washington University became our first Campus Consortium partner in Washington, DC via its School of Media and Public Affairs.
William & Mary, the second oldest college in the nation, embarked on a Campus Consortium partnership with the Pulitzer Center that serves as an example for others.