JOURNALISM & ENGAGEMENT FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD
Impact has been at the center of the Pulitzer Center’s mission of raising awareness and public understanding of underreported issues since our inception in 2006. Recent projects supported by the Pulitzer Center have struck down bad laws, helped end harmful government programs, and borne witness to events and atrocities that otherwise would be hidden from public scrutiny.
We believe in the power of journalism, education, and public outreach to create real-world change. Beyond the readers, listeners, and viewers of the journalism we support, our impact touches the professional and personal development of the news outlets, grantees, local organizations, students, and educators with whom we work.
“Receiving the grant felt like a vote of confidence from an organization whose work I've admired for years, and that has done wonders for my willingness and ability to challenge myself as a reporter and as a writer."
M. G. ZIMETA
Pulitzer Center grantee
"As a reporter, you care not only about getting the story, by also about reaching people with it. Making an impact. The Pulitzer Center helps stories achieve this, and it's one of the reasons I value working with it."
NADJA DROST
Pulitzer Center grantee
FEATURED IMPACT
HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACT
Pulitzer Center Grantees Win SOPA Awards
The Pulitzer Center is proud to announce that multiple of its supported stories have won prestigious awards at the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Awards for Editorial Excellence. These awards celebrate the highest standards in journalism across the Asia-Pacific region.
GLOBAL HEALTH IMPACT
Air Force Missileers Get New Workplace Inspections, Health Tracking Amid Ongoing Cancer Cluster Study
Missileers will soon have workplace exposures and hazards added to their records, and there will be more inspections of the underground bunkers where they work, a major reform following a Pulitzer-supported investigation on growing cancer concerns within the career field.
PEACE & CONFLICT IMPACT
Grantee's Drone Strike Investigation Ignites Calls for Somali Family's Compensation
Nick Turse’s Pulitzer-supported investigation into civilians killed by U.S. drone strikes in Somalia has catalyzed calls for compensation from international organizations and American legislators
HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACT
Afghan Refugee Family from Pulitzer Center Report Resettles in Canada
On February 2, 2024, Pulitzer Center grantee Tanvi Misra received good news from the Nasiris, an Afghan refugee family living in immigration limbo in Qatar. The Nasiris hadn’t been able to live outside the U.S. Army base in Doha—converted into a refugee camp—since they arrived there nearly two years ago. Now, they’ve finally been admitted to Canada.
CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT IMPACT
Student Voices: Youth Speak Out on Environmental Issues in the News
This year in the annual Pulitzer Center Fighting Words poetry contest, a remarkable 46.2 percent of contest entrants chose to address environmental concerns in their letters, indicating a widespread recognition of the importance of protecting our planet.
HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACT
Pulitzer Center Journalist Challenges Caste Discrimination in India
Just over three years after The Wire published the original report in December 2020, Pulitzer Center grantee Sukanya Shantha’s findings on caste discrimination in Indian prisons have made their way to an India supreme court decision bench, which heard the case on January 3.
“Not only were the funds provided by Pulitzer Center essential to making this youth-powered team reporting project possible, the Center’s reputation for supporting important investigative journalism bolstered our work. The fact that the Center would support a youth reporting project of this nature meant that experts, government officials, community members, and other stakeholders took us seriously, as well.”
CHRISTINE MACDONALD
Pulitzer Center grantee
“I am incredibly grateful that the chance and faith you all put in me in 2020 continues to pay forward. The Campus Consortium Reporting Fellowship had an outstanding impact on my career. Not only did it better prepare me for a career in international journalism, but it has also been the foundation for my relationship with the Pulitzer Center, which has now expanded to other reporting programs. I am incredibly grateful for my time reporting in Brazil."
ANTON L. DELGADO
2022/2023 Pulitzer Center Rainforest Investigations Fellow & 2020 Elon University Reporting Fellow
BROWSE ALL IMPACT
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Pulitzer Center Update
Local News Breaking Big Stories on Maternal Health
StoryReach U.S. Breaks Urgent Maternal Health Story in Louisiana The Pulitzer Center was not...
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Pulitzer Center Update
Five Years of Teaching 'The 1619 Project'
Our Impact: Five Years of Teaching The 1619 Project On August 18, 2019, The New York Times Magazine...
September 11, 2024
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