NLGJA 2024: So You Have a Story Idea: How To Fund Your Reporting

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How will you fund your next big story? Join the Pulitzer Center for a session designed to inspire and equip journalists of all experience levels to pursue support for ambitious, underreported stories. Panelists with experience reporting on global health, gender identity, and social movements will share their work, where to look for financial and editorial support, how to apply for it with audience engagement in mind, and their experiences with the Pulitzer Center.

The Pulitzer Center is a nonprofit journalism and education organization. We champion the power of stories to make complex issues relevant and inspire action."

Participants:

Kwasi (Kway-see) Gyamfi Asiedu is a staff writer at PolitiFact in Washington, D.C. Previously, he was a Los Angeles Times fellow and an Associated Press intern. He was a 2021 Pulitzer Center Columbia University Post-Grad Reporting Fellow; He published his Fellowship project, Ghana’s New Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill, in Protocol and The New York Times.

Seema Yasmin is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, medical doctor, professor, and the author of eight books including What the Fact?!, a teen’s guide to journalism, media literacy, and disinformation. She is director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative and clinical assistant professor in Stanford University’s Department of Medicine. The Pulitzer Center supported two of her reporting projects: Witch Hunts in India and Ebola Survivors, and two of her book projects: If God Is a Virus, a poetry book about the Ebola epidemic and the challenges of public health reporting, as well as a curriculum guide and teaching plan to accompany What the Fact?!

Tara Pixley is a visual journalist and assistant professor of media and communication at Temple University. She serves as Vice President of the National Press Photographers Association and as Executive Director of Authority Collective, an organization dedicated to establishing equity in visual media. Pixley was a 2022 Pulitzer Center and Diversify Photo Eyewitness Journalism grantee; her project, Immersed in Oil, was published in High Country News alongside poetry by Vickie Vértiz and featured in a Pulitzer Center photography exhibit at Photoville Festival in New York City.