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April 01, 2020 | Science Magazine
Can You Put a Price on COVID-19 Options? Experts Weigh Lives Versus Economics
Economists speculate on the effects of COVID-19.
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North America
April 01, 2020 | Science Magazine
The United States Leads in Coronavirus Cases, But Not Pandemic Response
The United States is first, and not in a good way.
April 01, 2020 | Science Magazine
With Record-Setting Speed, Vaccinemakers Take Their First Shots at the New Coronavirus
Despite facing challenges, COVID-19 vaccine development continues to progress.
April 01, 2020 | Science Magazine
The $1 Billion Bet: Pharma Giant and U.S. Government Team Up in All-Out Coronavirus Vaccine Push
The crowded race to develop a vaccine against the new coronavirus just received a potential billion-dollar boost.
April 01, 2020 | Science Magazine
Speed Coronavirus Vaccine Testing by Deliberately Infecting Volunteers? Not So Fast, Some Scientists Warn
A provocative, ethically complicated proposal to speed up coronavirus vaccine development is gaining traction.
March 30, 2020 | High Country News
Lost and Found: The Story of Land-Grant Universities
Mythology is powerful, but so is journalism.
March 30, 2020 | High Country News
Land-Grab Universities
Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.
March 27, 2020 | Iowa Public Radio
How Tribes and Other Partners in Southeast Oklahoma Are Preparing for the Next Big Drought
The Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation and other area partners began developing a drought mitigation plan for the Arbuckle-Simpson Aquifer in 2015.
March 27, 2020 | Science Magazine
Mathematics of Life and Death: How Disease Models Shape National Shutdowns and Other Pandemic Policies
COVID-19 isn’t the first infectious disease scientists have modeled—Ebola and Zika are recent examples—but never has so much depended on their work.
March 26, 2020 | The American Prospect
Still Marching to Secure the Right to Vote
Fifty-five years after the beatings in Selma shocked the nation, Southern blacks are still dealing with voter suppression.
March 26, 2020 | Iowa Public Radio
Prairie Research Could Help Farming Become More Resilient, Sustainable
Fire, climate, and grazing weigh heavily on prairie ecosystems.
March 26, 2020 | London Review of Books
Where Water Used to Be
Almost nothing remains of the five lakes Mexico City was built on.
The Science of COVID-19
Veteran public health journalists from Science magazine explore what science knows—and is learning—about the burgeoning pandemic.
Investigating Land Grants to Universities
This investigation challenges universities to reexamine their ties to dispossession and will show how land-grant universities profited from Indigenous land in stunning detail.
Private Prisons: Locking Down the Facts
This series explores the competing political narratives over the efficacy and morality of private prisons and whether they are good for employees, inmates, and the economies of the small towns that often house them.
America’s Clean Water Crisis Goes Far Beyond Flint
Photographer Matt Black is documenting communities across the U.S. without access to clean drinking water, or, in some cases, without water at all.
Battle to the Ballot Box
Voter suppression, harsh voter ID laws, and voter disenfranchisement are on the rise. How does this affect the competitive Democratic primary and United States' most-watched election?
United States and Iran: Back from the Brink of War
How are ordinary Iranians reacting to heightened tensions with the U.S.?
Looking Beyond Old Growth Logging in the Tongass National Forest
Changing realities around climate and land stewardship are creating new possibilities around how Native communities manage and profit from their lands, by aligning ethics, sustainability, and profits.
At What Cost?
A Baltimore Sun investigation into Maryland’s child support system and the heavy price it exacts on Baltimore’s poorest families and communities.
The Jersey Shore, A Century After Sandy
Dr. Stewart Farrell and other coastal scientists have been warning that much of the iconic Jersey Shore will be erased by sea-level rise and storms over the next century. But is anyone listening?
Mission to Ukraine
Wisconsin Army National Guard members overseeing the training of Ukrainian armed forces are reluctant characters in the impeachment case against President Donald Trump.
How the Global Recycling System Collapsed
Vivienne Walt and Sebastian Meyer reported from the U.S. and Malaysia in their investigation of the failure of global plastics recycling.
Mexico City's Deepening Water Crisis
As an increasingly severe water crisis grips Mexico City, what will the future look like in a world that is rapidly running out of usable water?
November 27, 2019 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Alex MacLean
Aerial photographer Alex MacLean addresses the impact of sea-level rise, and current strategies to mitigate it, by capturing images of shoreline vulnerability, catastrophic damage, and strategies for resilience along the coast from Maine to Texas.
October 03, 2019 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalists: Tim Sullivan & Cedar Attanasio
In Juarez, a cobbled-together community of migrants is trapped by U.S. policies in an immigration purgatory. Associated Press reporters Tim Sullivan and Cedar Attanasio spent a week in their world.
September 30, 2019 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Victoria Mckenzie
In Nome, Alaska, a city reckons with a crisis of unaddressed sexual violence, reports Victoria Mckenzie.
September 08, 2019 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: James Whitlow Delano
Photojournalist James Whitlow Delano explores the human and environmental toll of mining for gold in La Rinconada in the Peruvian Andes.
September 08, 2019 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Louie Palu
Meet journalist Louie Palu, reporting on the militarization of the Arctic.
August 25, 2019 | Meet the Journalist
Meet The Journalist: Marcia Biggs
At the height of the U.S. immigration debate, Marcia Biggs goes to ground zero of the Central American refugee crisis and the origin of migrant caravans to find out why people are being forced to flee.
August 02, 2019 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Christopher de Bellaigue
Author and journalist Christopher de Bellaigue reports on assisted dying and euthanasia practices in North America and Europe.
April 26, 2019
Congress Heights' Middle Schoolers Explore Journalism at USA Today
Students from Center City Public Charter School attend a three-day workshop inspired by the award-winning series ‘Pumped Dry'—learning about groundwater depletion, talking to the journalists behind the project and then tour USA Today's newsroom.
April 22, 2019 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Perla Trevizo
Journalist Perla Trevizo examines the conditions in Guatemala that lead families to migrate to the U.S.
April 08, 2019 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Larry C. Price
Multimedia journalist Larry C. Price traveled around the world to report on air pollution: specifically, PM2.5. What is it, and how does it manifest across the globe?
January 07, 2019 | Education Resources
'Our Democracy': Memphis
Catchlight Fellow Andrea Bruce discusses American democracy with a community of disenfranchised ex-offenders in Memphis, Tennessee.
January 03, 2019 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Eli Kintisch
Eli Kintisch wrote and produced THAW, a documentary series that tells the story of a journey to the Arctic ocean in the dead of winter, revealing a radically changing ecosystem with global implications.
March 23, 2020 | Education news
DC Middle Schoolers Tell Underreported Stories With PBS NewsHour
More than 20 students from Ida B. Wells Middle School participated in the three-day workshop.
March 20, 2020 | General news, Education news, Awards
JHU Reporting Fellow Isabella Gomes' Image Shortlisted for 'This Is Gender' Exhibition
Gomes' image of a sex trafficking survior and her guide dog was chosen as a finalist from over 400 submissions.
March 18, 2020 | Awards
Announcing the Winners of the Seventh Annual CUGH-Pulitzer Center Video Competition
Awards were given to the best videos showcasing important global health issues and innovations.
March 16, 2020 | General news
Carol Rosenberg Interviewed in Columbia Journalism Review
Carol Rosenberg speaks about the intricacies of reporting in Guantanamo Bay.
March 12, 2020 | Awards
'Broken Justice' Podcast Named Finalist in Silver Gavel Awards
"Broken Justice," a PBS NewsHour podcast supported by the Pulitzer Center, was recognized in the Radio category.
March 09, 2020 | General news
Inaugural storyLAB Data Journalism Grant Awarded for Report on Guardians of Indigenous Territories
Humber College and the Pulitzer Center announce Journalist Jimmy Thomson as the grant recipient.
March 04, 2020 | General news
Pulitzer Center and Chicago Council Partner on Longworth Media Fellowships
New media fellowships honoring veteran journalist Richard Longworth support Chicago and Midwest journalists reporting on international stories.
February 27, 2020 | General news
The Phoenix Reports on Marcio Pimenta's Visit to Swarthmore College
The Phoenix highlights Pulitzer Center grantee Marcio Pimenta's visit to Swarthmore College.
January 31, 2020 | Education news
International Students Come Together in Chicago to Create Peace Journalism
Over the summer, students from the U.S. and around the world came together in Chicago to study peacebuilding through the Genesis Academy Summer Institute.
January 09, 2020 | General news
Pulitzer Center Names Marina Walker Guevara as Executive Editor
Marina Walker Guevara, manager of the Panama Papers, joins the Pulitzer Center in February.
December 18, 2019 | General news, Education news
Executive Director Jon Sawyer on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts in Journalism
This Media Impact Funders webinar discussed recent initiatives to increase diversity in media organizations.
December 13, 2019 | Education news
The Pulitzer Center Brings Baltimore Sun Journalists to Schools
March 25, 2020 | Middle School, High School
Growing Up Through the Cracks: Exploring Solutions to Child Poverty in Scotland and the United States
Students analyze solutions to end child poverty in Glasgow, Scotland and Allegheny County in the Southwest of Pennsylvania.
March 20, 2020 | All Grades
Exploring the Legacy of Slavery in Mass Incarceration
A lesson plan for close reading and guided discussion of Bryan Stevenson's essay for The 1619 Project, which traces the legacy of slavery in the contemporary criminal justice system.
March 18, 2020 | Middle School, High School
Climate Change and the Great Lakes: Identity and Home
Students explore the effects of climate change on the identities, homes, and livelihoods of communities living in the Great Lakes region.
March 11, 2020 | High School
Textual Analysis and Discussion: Alaska Native Women Organize for Justice
Students analyze reporting about Alaska Native women in Nome who are fighting to end impunity for sexual assault, and dive deeper into women's rights advocacy around the world.
February 18, 2020 | Middle School, High School
The Weekly: Analyzing the Impacts of Chronic Disease
Students learn about sickle cell disease and the first teen to undergo an experimental new treatment, while also exploring issues of chronic illness and access to medical care more broadly.
February 12, 2020 | High School, College
Policing for Profit: Evaluating the Constitutionality of Civil Asset Forfeiture
Students explore reporting on civil asset forfeiture (the seizure of property police believe is connected to a crime), evaluate perspectives on "policing for profit," and make local connections.
December 10, 2019 | Middle School, High School
Using Oral History in Reporting
Students learn about the techniques and value of oral history by looking at examples used in reporting, and developing their own projects by connecting historical events to their own community.
October 16, 2019 | Middle School, High School
The Weekly: Tracing Conflict Minerals from the Ground to the Consumer
Students learn about how gold from illegal mines in Colombia winds up in American electronics, and the violence, labor conditions, and environmental consequences that result from this trade.
September 24, 2019 | All Grades
Lesson Plan: Analyzing the Impacts of Climate Change on Cape Cod
Students evaluate how climate change is impacting the land, people and wildlife on Cape Cod through close reading of the article "At the Edge of a Warming World" from The Boston Globe.
September 15, 2019 | Middle School, High School
The Weekly: Examining the Politics and Human Stories of Migration
Students learn about the asylum-seeking process and family separation at the U.S.-Mexico border, while also exploring themes connected to migration and refugees more broadly.
September 10, 2019 | All Grades
Evaluating and Reshaping Timelines in The 1619 Project: New York Times for Kids Edition
This lesson plan guides students in exploring a special kids' section of The New York Times titled "Why You Should Know About the Year 1619."
September 06, 2019 | High School
Exploring Techniques for Investigative Journalism
Students explore how the Baltimore Sun conducted their deep investigation into the corrupt case of Sgt. Wayne Jenkins, a former police officer for the Baltimore Police Department.
