This project was produced in partnership with the Bureau for International Reporting.
Haiti in Crisis
Published January 13, 2010
Mark Stanley, Pulitzer Center
The worst earthquake to strike Haiti in 200 years rattled the country yesterday, leaving the infrastructure in shambles and thousands dead. The quake hit just as many believed Haiti was achieving some semblance of stability; relative political repose under President René Préval and heavy United Nations presence enabled economic growth and promised increased foreign investments.
Pulitzer Center grantees Jason Maloney and Kira Kay recently reported on these hopeful developments. In their project on fragile states, they write:
For decades, Haiti has struggled to pull itself out of failure. But just as things would start to look promising, chaos would strike again, in the form of coups, gang wars, natural disasters, or often a combination of several of these crises at once.
Their work aired January 11 on PBS NewsHour. View the Special Director's cut above.
Also check out related Pulitzer Center reporting on HIV and child slaves in Haiti.
More than a billion people across 60 nations are living in fragile or failing states, like Haiti, Bosnia, the DRC and East Timor. What is needed to stabilize these particular countries?
Summer Marion, Pulitzer Center (Photos and Video by Jennifer Glasse, Internews)
Gateways
Mark Stanley worked with the Pulitzer Center as new media strategist December 2009 through 2010. Mark has worked on the communication teams for Investigative Reporters and Editors and Newsy.com. He...