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Nicaragua's Transoceanic Canal
Colossal. Mammoth. Pharaonic. Those are the words that describe the Chinese-backed proposal to build a 170-mile interoceanic canal across Nicaragua. But can it be built, and, if so, at what cost?
Classroom Subjects
Social Studies
They Are Here Because You Were There
For at-risk LGBT asylum seekers from former British protectorates, the UK is an ideal and obvious destination. But what happens when the British government won't allow them to stay?
Water Safety in Zanzibar
The WHO estimates over 370,000 lives are lost each year to drowning. And while water is an undeniable part of culture in Zanzibar, Tanzania, lack of knowledge about aquatic survival is commonplace.
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.
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.
May 31, 2018 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Timothy McLaughlin
Journalist Timothy McLaughlin reports on domestic developments in Myanmar surrounding the Rakhine crisis as well as the case of two Reuters journalists currently on trial for their reporting.
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.
April 02, 2019 | Elementary, Middle School, High School
Fighting Words: Poetry in Response to Current Events [Contest and Workshop]
Students are invited to submit poems on peace and conflict to the Fighting Words Poetry Contest. The attached workshop guides teachers and students in how to craft a successful entry.
February 27, 2019 | Middle School, High School
Women and Nonviolent Resistance
This lesson plan uses resources about women around the world leading nonviolent movements to fight against violence and injustice.
February 14, 2019 | All Grades
The People Behind the Stories
Students will do a deep dive into the lives of the people whose stories they hear about in the news and will develop a deeper understanding on how one individual can have a global impact.
February 13, 2019 | Middle School, High School
Sourcing Our Stuff: Exploring Ethics in Clothing, Accessories, and Food
In this project, students explore how we are connected with people across the globe and dive deep into one specific item of their choice to research an issue connected to it.
January 30, 2019 | Elementary, Middle School, High School
Exploring Afropunk's Global Influence
Students explore Afropunk as a global social catalyst and consider art and fashion's relationship to identity, culture, and social movements.
January 29, 2019 | High School, College
Depicting War: Examining the Conflict in Yemen
Students explore reporting on the Yemeni war and consider: What forms can war take, and how does it affect civilians directly and indirectly? How can journalists report on a conflict well?
January 25, 2019 | High School
Evaluating Turkey: What Makes a Country “Free”?
Students evaluate the status of freedom in Turkey using Freedom House criteria, and consider how freedom may be defined at home and around the world.
January 07, 2019 | Middle School, High School, College
Video Discussion: Exploring Democracy with Formerly Incarcerated People
Engage students in a dialogue about democracy with photojournalist Andrea Bruce and members of a re-entry program in Memphis, Tennessee.
December 27, 2018 | Elementary, Middle School, High School
Evaluating Climate Change's Impact on Individuals and Ecosystems
Students will evaluate how communities rely on their ecosystems for survival and climate change's impact on their ability to do so by examining the Meitei people's relationship to Loktak Lake.
November 16, 2018 | All Grades
Six Tips for Strong Interviews
Students practice skills for preparing and conducting interviews for documentary films.
November 16, 2018 | All Grades
Visual Storytelling: Crafting Images that Reflect Personal Stories
Students evaluate how photojournalist Daniella Zalcman communicates interviews with blended photography in order to create their own blended portraits that communicate how their identities are...
November 14, 2018 | All Grades
Placing Identity: Planning a Documentary Filmmaking Project
This resource describes methods for producing documentary filmmaking projects with students that make local connections to global issues by outlining the development of the film “Placing Identity.”