Education news

Taking an opportunity to broaden their view of the world around them, 13 area middle school and high school students recently took a trip to gain new perspectives on issues that have impact globally as well as locally.

Beginning Monday, July 27, 2009, the St. Louis Beacon is featuring one student essay per day on its website starting with Parkway West High School rising junior Hope Bretscher's essay and commentary. Click here to view the student essays featured at the St. Louis Beacon.

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. Listed below are the inaugural winners for 2009 and previews of their projects.

Projects in progress feature links to their reporting projects.

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. Listed below are the inaugural winners for 2009 and previews of their projects.

Pulitzer Center's Janeen Heath and Alex Amend introduce the Spring 2009 Global Gateway program in St. Louis, which focuses on Womenand Children in Crisis. This program includes visits with the journalists in the classroom, student blogging and video uploads on the Women and Children in Crisis web portal, as well as an essay contest with cash and leadership awards. The web portal surveys reporting projects from Nepal, Iraq, Liberia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. This video is directed to participating students and teachers in St.

By Aaron Sudholt
Originally published in Suburban Journals

A Collinsville High School class on Monday got a look into the world that few students ever learn about.

Reporters from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting and staff from Civitas Associates attended one of Barbara Lindauer's world history classes to show news stories they had reported on from around the world.

By Robert Joiner

Nerinx Hall High School in comfortable Webster Groves is miles away -- a world away -- from Africa, the Middle East and Asia. But on Tuesday night, crises un

Meredith May wanted to tell the story of girls whose families sold them into slavery in western Nepal, but budget cuts in her California newsroom were keeping her from getting there.

Asia Society, New York

This is an incredible honor for the Pulitzer Center. And it is an especially great honor to receive such an award during such difficult economic times when now, more than ever, every penny counts.

So you have our word that we will use very penny responsibly and in pursuit of our mission to raise awareness of global issues amongst today's youth and tomorrow's leaders.

The Pulitzer Center is the recipient of a 2008 Goldman Sachs Foundation Prize for Excellence in International Education in Media/Technology presented by the Asia Society. We are honored by this recognition of our Global Gateway educational initiative where we connect students with under-reported international issues and the Pulitzer Center journalists covering them. Our Pulitzer Gateway online portals are an essential part of this work from the prototype Water Wars launched in the fall to India: Conflicts Within, which went live this winter.

The following is an excerpt of "Broken News: What went wrong, and how to make it right" an address delivered by Pulitzer Center Executive Director Jon Sawyer to Davidson College, February 2, 2009.

I was at a conference last Friday in New York where we talked, no surprise, about the search for new models that would make it possible to sustain independent, high-quality journalism.

Update: Voices of America (VOA) has coverage of this event here and a video from the Water Wars project by Ernest Waititu.