September 1, 2010
Jon Sawyer is director of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a non-profit organization that funds independent reporting with the intent of raising the standard of media coverage of global affairs. Sawyer became the center's founding...
September 1, 2010
William Wheeler has reported on political affairs from East Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. He’s also covered immigrant detention in rural Virginia and subterranean explorers in the sewers of New York City. He holds a degree in...
September 1, 2010
Sean Gallagher is a British photographer, currently based in China. Graduating in Zoology from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in England in 2002, he subsequently changed career direction into photography.
August 31, 2010
Peter Sawyer joined the Pulitzer Center in Fall 2009. Focusing on water and sanitation issues, he works to extend the impact of the Center's reporting on water through online outreach, events in Washington, and educational programs in...
July 23, 2010
Jen Marlowe and David Morse's documentary Rebuilding Hope screened at the sixth annual Rwanda Film Festival (also known as Hillywood), which shows films both in Kigali and the countryside. The festival took place July 11-28, 2010.
July 19, 2010
Over 36,000 women in Nigeria die each year due to post-delivery complications. Dawn Sinclair Shapiro discusses documentary, "The Edge of Joy" which focuses on the pregnancy of several Nigerian women, with MediaGlobal.
July 12, 2010
Molly Walton of Circle of Blue, an international network of journalists reporting on the global freshwater crisis, interviews Sean Gallagher on desertification in Inner Mongolia. Read excerpt below:
July 7, 2010
In July 2010, the Pulitzer Center again partnered with Helium to produce the ninth round of the Global Issues/Citizen Voices writing contest. Contestents were challenged with the following prompt:
Hundreds of thousands of women die each year due...
June 1, 2010
Students at Campus Consortium member schools were eligible to apply for reporting fellowships of up to $2,000 each and the opportunity to work with the Pulitzer Center staff on an international reporting project.
May 30, 2010
Students in the 9th grade have spent the semester working on action projects built around international crises such as the quake in Haiti and the war in Afghanistan. They have been spearheading plans that range from raising money for schools to...
