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Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: When a Big American Corporation Abandons Your Country
This week: what happens when a corporation abandons a country, Marine Le Penn's nationalist stance...
April 25, 2017 -
Multinational Alcoa, in a restructuring, departs struggling Suriname after 100 years. The loose ends...
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Pulitzer Center Update
National Geographic Your Shot 'Strong Women' Finalists Selected
The Pulitzer Center is partnering with Your Shot– National Geographic’s photo community made up of...
April 18, 2017 -
Pulitzer Center Update
ICIJ Wins Pulitzer Prize for Panama Papers Project
ICIJ was awarded the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism for their work on the Panama...
April 10, 2017 -
Lesson Plans
The Nanny's Child: Economic Factors in Migration
This lesson uses a photo essay as a primary source so students can identify the Seven Economic Principles in a real world situation.
![Nelson Adose Martines, 59, emerges from harvesting a cassava root by his family's shacks off of Suriname's Afobaka Road. Martines is part of the generations of Saamaka who still feel the effects of a 1964 government resettlement that moved thousands of residents from villages inundated by Alcoa's Brokopondo Reservoir. "We live off farming, farming is how we eat, how we live," said Martines. "But because a lot of villages relocated, we had to share these resources with more people." Image by Stephanie…](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/04-23-17/4-saamaka01.jpg.webp?h=dfba89c9&itok=W86HMYdU "Nelson Adose Martines, 59, emerges from harvesting a cassava root by his family's shacks off of Suriname's Afobaka Road. Martines is part of the generations of Saamaka who still feel the effects of a 1964 government resettlement that moved thousands of residents from villages inundated by Alcoa's Brokopondo Reservoir. "We live off farming, farming is how we eat, how we live," said Martines. "But because a lot of villages relocated, we had to share these resources with more people." Image by Stephanie Strasburg. Suriname, 2017.")
!["Zero Harm" was the goal at Alcoa's closed Coermotibo Operation near Moengo. Image by Stephanie Strasburg. Suriname, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/04-23-17/2-moengoplantshuttered.jpg.webp?h=dfba89c9&itok=wHJI_vgw ""Zero Harm" was the goal at Alcoa's closed Coermotibo Operation near Moengo. Image by Stephanie Strasburg. Suriname, 2017.")
![A screenshot from "Panama Papers: An Introduction," produced by Carrie Ching with support from the Pulitzer Center. Image by Carrie Ching. United States, 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/04-10-17/panamapapers_1.jpg.webp?h=ab94c40b&itok=afTiZN6E "A screenshot from "Panama Papers: An Introduction," produced by Carrie Ching with support from the Pulitzer Center. Image by Carrie Ching. United States, 2016.")
