Opportunities for Visual Storytelling

The Pulitzer Center’s Global Reporting Grants support in-depth, high-impact reporting on critical issues that are often overlooked in the media, from global health to climate change. Our stories address the root causes of crises around the world, including within the U.S. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Survival in Xinjiang is an experimental immersive reporting project that includes "Inside Xinjiang's Prison State," an interactive feature story for The New Yorker, and Reeducated, a virtual-reality film.

Facing Life, which follows the lives of eight people recently released from California prisons, aims to bring greater understanding of the hurdles people face when they reenter our society, and maybe even a glimpse at yet another failure of the justice system—incarceration that only leaves the individual further behind than the rest of society.

This OjoPúblico journalistic investigation addresses issues that currently impact Indigenous populations in Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru: the precarious access to health in thepandemic, deaths from COVID-19, and the penetration of criminal groups.

Antonella, a 12-year-old girl living only 150 meters away from Buenos Aires, has very long hair below her knees and has promised to cut it very short when school resumes after the COVID-19 pandemic.

This investigation delves into the underworld of mercury, following its path from Guyana to neighboring Suriname, exploring the health and environmental consequences, and what the prohibition of mercury would mean for the livelihoods of miners and communities across the Amazon.

This curation celebrates photojournalistic work published between December 2022 and November 2023. The featured images come from talented and dedicated photographer grantees and reporting partners within the Pulitzer Center network.

Since 2014, the Pulitzer Center has been part of Photoville, an ongoing event with exhibits in New York City that also features in-person and virtual storytelling events, artist talks, educational programming, and open-air exhibitions.

Everyday DC challenges students to consider how Washington, D.C., is portrayed in the media, and how they can compose images that more accurately visualize their everyday experiences.

Since 2009, the Pulitzer Center has supported Free Spirit’s summer documentary filmmaking program by connecting participating students with journalist mentors to support the development and production of their documentaries about underreported local issues.

The Pulitzer Center offers free, virtual journalist visits to K–12 students and educators. We work with journalists who use photography, video, writing, and more to cover diverse topics and geographic regions for outlets around the globe.

For the fourth time in five years, Wake Forest University and the Pulitzer Center created a for-credit photojournalism workshop for college students. During the spring 2023 semester, grantee Justin Cook led five seminar sessions over the course of three weeks, with students ultimately developing independent photo essays on a range of topics.

As part of the larger Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellow program, students studying documentary filmmaking have opportunities for funding and mentorship as they develop their projects. During COVID-19, we expanded to offer post-graduate reporting grants to master's students at Columbia regardless of their medium.