Published and Broadcast

Reports by Pulitzer Center journalists for print, online and broadcast news outlets
May 24, 2012 / The San Francisco Chronicle
David Conrad, Micah Albert
Dandora, Nairobi's overflowing and mismanaged dump site, could be closed or relocated, leaving many scavengers without food or a source of livelihood.
May 21, 2012 / Global Post
Trevor Snapp
As Sudan's army fights rebels in South Kordofan, an estimated 1 million civilians suffer daily from air strikes. The situation is becoming a humanitarian crisis to equal Darfur.
May 17, 2012 / Bloomberg Businessweek
Peter DiCampo
Ivory Coast produces 40 percent of the world's cocoa, but cocoa has been a bittersweet crop for the country.

Untold Stories

Reports from the field - an exclusive channel of Pulitzer Center reporting
May 23, 2012 Shiho Fukada
Job creation is one of the biggest challenges Japan faces. A government labor center in Osaka has little to offer unemployed day workers other than mopping the floor at the center.
May 22, 2012
Austin Merrill, Peter DiCampo
Duékoué, Ivory Coast saw some of the worst fighting of the civil war. Months later, officials are trying to rebuild and reconcile, but the residents of the town are reluctant.
May 21, 2012
Joshua Kucera
Kazakhstan is placing bets on making Aktau a transportation hub—planning a massive expansion and setting up an economic zone with low tax rates. The U.S. will be key to jumpstarting this development.

Projects

Reporting projects commissioned by the Pulitzer Center
Shiho Fukada
Shiho Fukada documents the lives of disposable workers in Japan in stories that illustrate the global unemployment crisis and the growing gap between rich and poor that has provoked much turmoil.
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?

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.
Population is a global issue that lies at the intersection of economics, environment, gender roles, culture, politics, and religion.  The Population Gateway will explore this controversial, confusing...