The Pulitzer Center's Behind the Story series serves as a valuable resource about our grantees and their stories, offering insights into why these underreported topics are important and how the journalists reported them.
'Behind the Story' Videos
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Victoria Mckenzie
Officials and citizens in Nome, Alaska, a remote city in western Alaska's Bering Strait region, are...
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Kristen Gelineau
The Associated Press is investigating how the opioid epidemic, once thought to be an American...
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Ayo Awokoya
To some, perhaps the concept of slavery still harkens back to arcane images of whips and chains, of...
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Simon Ostrovsky
Simon Ostrovsky of PBS NewsHour Weekend talks about being one of the few foreign reporters to speak...
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Christopher de Bellaigue
In 2002, the Netherlands legalized euthanasia, and the country has since become a reference for...
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Peter Andrey Smith
Pulitzer Center grantee Peter Andrey Smith went to Tasmania to see first-hand how farmers on the...
![Dr. Jennifer Stevens, a pain specialist, talks with patient Cheryl Rowley who is awaiting surgery at St. Vincent's Hospital in Sydney, Australia, on July 17, 2019. "We were just pumping this stuff out into our local community, thinking that that had no consequences," says Stevens, a vocal advocate for changing opioid prescribing practices. "And now, of course, we realize that it does have huge consequences." Image by David Goldman. Australia, 2019.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/16_0.jpeg.webp?h=f7d9296c&itok=P7zx0MoN "Dr. Jennifer Stevens, a pain specialist, talks with patient Cheryl Rowley who is awaiting surgery at St. Vincent's Hospital in Sydney, Australia, on July 17, 2019. "We were just pumping this stuff out into our local community, thinking that that had no consequences," says Stevens, a vocal advocate for changing opioid prescribing practices. "And now, of course, we realize that it does have huge consequences." Image by David Goldman. Australia, 2019.")
Q&As with Pulitzer Center Grantees
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Pulitzer Center Update
Behind the Story: Fishbein on the Power of Local Reporting Partners in Myanmar
Grantee Emily Fishbein discusses the challenges and strategies behind reporting on Myanmar remotely...
October 26, 2020 -
Pulitzer Center Update
Behind the Story: Jerry Mitchell on Poverty and the Pandemic in Mississippi
Founder of the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting discusses COVID-19’s effect on the...
October 19, 2020 -
Pulitzer Center Update
Behind the Story: The Outlaw Ocean Music Project
What do musicians and journalists have in common? They are both storytellers, said grantee Ian...
October 9, 2020 -
Pulitzer Center Update
Behind the Story: ‘Undocumented in the Pandemic’
Emily Kassie details the filmmaking process, editorial decisions, and ethical considerations that...
October 5, 2020 -
Pulitzer Center Update
Behind the Story: Mandy Locke on the North Carolina News Collaborative
A coalition of 22 North Carolina newspapers is examining COVID-19’s economic impact on communities...
September 25, 2020 -
Pulitzer Center Update
Behind the Story: Reporting on COVID, Homelessness, and Housing
A project investigates the effects of COVID-19 on Americans experiencing homelessness and facing...
September 16, 2020
![The website for Graduates Within Reach Academy says, "The focus of GWRA is Dropout Prevention and modifying unacceptable behaviors for an educational setting." Image by Sarah Warnock/MCIR. United States, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/gwra.jpg.webp?h=06ac0d8c&itok=BpNzC5xX "The website for Graduates Within Reach Academy says, "The focus of GWRA is Dropout Prevention and modifying unacceptable behaviors for an educational setting." Image by Sarah Warnock/MCIR. United States, 2020.")
