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From Paradise to Peril: The Amazon's Isolated Tribes
Some of the world’s last isolated tribes are poised to make contact with the outside world as illegal loggers, miners, cocaine traffickers and others penetrate their territory.
Classroom Subjects
Social Studies
Saudi Arabia: A Changing Kingdom
Saudi Arabia's King Salman has been on the throne since January 2015, but already has signaled important shifts in the country’s internal governance and foreign policy.
Innovating the Rwandan Recovery
More than twenty years after a genocide, a look at the next generation of Rwandans and their place in a rapidly changing country.
Somalia: Pirates and Anarchy
Journalist Michael Scott Moore was held hostage for 32 months by Somali pirates. He is recovering. Will Somalia ever recover?
Guerrero: The Monster in the Mountains
On September 26, 2014, 43 Mexican students went missing in Iguala, a mountain town in the state of Guerrero. This project explores the long-term issues that gave rise to these events.
The 101st Airborne, Fighting Ebola in Liberia
To assist Liberia in containing Ebola, the US turned to its soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan from the most battle-hardened unit in the US Army. How does an infantry division fight a disease?
Saving Kenya’s Mothers
Kenya continues to lose 7,000 mothers to preventable deaths each year. If the solutions are known, why has there been so little progress in saving their lives?
Everyday Africa: Pulitzer Center Education Programming
The Pulitzer Center is proud to partner with the Everyday Africa initiative and its founders, and with students and educators across the globe, to expand the project's reach and educational potential.
Venetian Artisanship and Climate Change
Robert Eric Shoemaker presents a multimedia excavation of the artisans of Venice through the lens of climate change: a conversation between art and science.
India: Damming Sacred Rivers
In the Indian border state of Sikkim, indigenous Himalayan communities charted for hydroelectric dam construction fight to protect their sacred rivers.
India: Grappling with the Legacy of 'The Population Bomb'
From the U.S. to India, alarm has long been raised about overpopulation, leading to calls for harsh measures to curb it. But is population control the answer?
Who Takes Care of Nanny's Children?
When a Filipino woman leaves her home to work overseas as a nanny, she knows that it will be years before she sees her own children again.
May 30, 2018 | Meet the Journalist
Meet The Journalists: Allison Herrera, Josephine Holtzman, Isaac Kestenbaum
Inter(Nation)al is a pilot podcast and radio project that shows the hidden history behind current events through the lens of treaties signed between the U.S. Government and Native Nations.
May 23, 2018 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Jonathan Blitzer
What is the legacy of deportations in El Salvador? Jonathan Blitzer covers the issue in a series of stories for The New Yorker Magazine.
May 23, 2018 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalists: Sara Reardon, Adam Levy, Greg Kendall-Ball
Sara Reardon, Adam Levy, and Greg Kendall-Ball take you behind the challenges Colombia faces as it reintegrates tens of thousands of people back into society following the 2016 peace treaty.
May 20, 2018 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Tomaso Clavarino
Churches in Ghana are booming and pastors have become some of the richest and most powerful people. But at what price? "Prophets and profits" investigates this boom and its consequences.
May 18, 2018 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Jack Losh
As fighting uproots more than a million people, Jack Losh travels to the Central African Republic to report on the country's civil war and humanitarian crisis.
May 18, 2018 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Estacio Valoi
Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism's Estacio Valoi discusses Kruger's contested borderlands and how he overcame the challenges of reporting in a remote zone by using new media tools.
April 24, 2018 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Joe Penney
The U.S. military recently invited a delegation of local leaders in Niger to tour a secretive drone base.
April 18, 2018 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Daniel Brook
Daniel Brook reports on the building of instant, modern cities in the developing world and examines the effects of major infrastructure projects on citizens living in Mexico, China, and India.
January 17, 2018 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalists: Nadja Drost and Bruno Federico
As Venezuela’s social and economic crisis deepens, thousands of citizens are taking to the streets. Meanwhile, a quieter humanitarian one is unfolding as hunger and malnutrition spread.
January 04, 2018 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalists: Kiah Collier and Julian Aguilar
Texas Tribune reporters Kiah Collier and Julián Aguilar discuss how they reported "The Taking," an investigation into how the federal government seized private land on the Texas-Mexico border to build a fence.
December 29, 2017 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Jackie Spinner
Jackie Spinner spent three months in Morocco exploring the ways in which the country has become a moderate Islamic hub in the North Africa and to examine the contrast between image and reality.
December 20, 2017 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Gregory Scruggs
Gregory Scruggs, a U.S.-based journalist specializing in land and property rights, traveled to Antigua and Barbuda after Hurricane Irma. Watch to learn more.
July 24, 2018 | All Grades, Elementary, Middle School, High School, College
Visualizing Climate Change
Activities encouraging students to create and evaluate visual representations of climate change in order to interpret and share environmental knowledge effectively.
July 23, 2018 | All Grades, Elementary, Middle School, High School, College
Taking Action: Activities for Students, Schools, and Communities
What could you and your students do to fight climate change? This resource outlines letter-writing campaigns, research projects and school-wide event ideas for students.
July 22, 2018 | All Grades, Elementary, Middle School, High School, College
Digging Deeper: Background Materials & Primary Sources
Find all the context you need to teach "Losing Earth," including historical timelines and original transcripts from Senate hearings on climate change.
July 21, 2018 | All Grades, Elementary, Middle School, High School, College
Skype a Journalist into Your Classroom
Want a journalist to speak with your class about their environmental reporting? Our grantees have expertise ranging from ocean health to pollution. Learn more about how to schedule a free visit.
July 12, 2018 | Elementary, Middle School, High School
Teaching Feminism in the World's Poorest Classrooms [10 minute read + lesson ideas]
Students explore text and photos (including Instagram stories) about a school for girls in rural India in order to spark conversation about access to education and feminism in their communities.
June 27, 2018 | Middle School, High School
What It's Like to Be Part of India's Queer Community [5 minute read + photos]
Discussion and activity ideas for a lesson exploring the re-criminalization of homosexuality in India through portrait photography.
June 20, 2018 | Middle School, High School
What Is Home?
Students explore ideas of “home” in connection to refugees worldwide and homelessness locally by analyzing images and text from Finding Home and creating their own photo stories that reflect their...
May 23, 2018 | High School, College
Mapping States of Decay: The Geography of Radioactivity on the Colorado Plateau
Students will learn about the geography and history of uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau. They will then create their own maps as visual narratives about the topic.
May 16, 2018 | Elementary, Middle School, High School
Reading and Writing About Endangered Species [Grades 1-12]
In this lesson, students read a short text [5-10 minutes] about how exotic pet ownership leads to loss in biodiversity, and respond to writing prompts. Students can be introduced to the subject...
April 11, 2018 | High School, College
Too Young to Wed: The Secret World of Child Brides [Documentary Screening and Discussion]
Stephanie Sinclair's documentary short is an investigation of child marriage and a call to action. In this lesson, students view the film and discuss root causes of child marriage and solutions,...
April 02, 2018 | All Grades
10 Lesson Plans to Celebrate Earth Day
In celebration of Earth Day, we've compiled our top ten lesson plans that feature reporting on how communities around the world are responding to diverse environmental issues.
March 28, 2018 | Middle School, High School
Feature Writing Workshop
This resource outlines tips for feature writing that can be applied to a variety of events. Students in the DC metro area used these tips to reflect on workshops with Pulitzer Center journalists.