Investigative
Some news stories require greater investments of time to report, with journalists conducting exhaustive investigations using data, public and private records and interviews with a host of sources. Pulitzer Center grantee stories tagged with “Investigative” feature in-depth reporting that delves deeply into serious issues. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on investigative journalism.
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Lesson Plans
How to Fight Corruption in a Dangerous State?
Students will analyze whether technology can increase citizens’ abilities to fight corruption when speaking out can result in jail time or death.
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Pulitzer Center Update
How Africa's Journalists United for a Pioneering Collaboration
Reporters in one of the largest ever journalistic collaborations in Africa spent months unearthing...
September 9, 2015 -
Pulitzer Center Update
Activist Andy Hall Indicted in Thailand
Activist Andy Hall faces seven years behind bars in Thailand for research he did on labor abuses.
August 31, 2015 -
Lesson Plans
Structuring Reporting on War Crimes in Sri Lanka
Students will analyze how authors order ideas and emphasize details to report on a global conflict. They will reflect on injustices they have witnessed and write their own reports on local conflicts.
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Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: Life and Loss in Syria
To the victor go the spoils, but in Syria’s largest city there won’t be much left.
August 24, 2015 -
Pulitzer Center Update
Putting in the Fix: Finding Fixers in Faraway Places
Journalists often use "fixers" to provide key contacts, arrange meetings, or translate interviews...
August 20, 2015 -
Students will develop a proposal for the Punjab and Kashmir governments in India to help prevent and eventually eliminate the heroin epidemic.
