Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting (Pulitzer Center) is a nonprofit organization that works to support independent journalists to undertake reporting projects across the world that explore underreported issues. The award supports the organization’s AI Spotlight Series, which seeks to elevate coverage about artificial intelligence (AI) by creating a broad base of AI-literate journalists through a cross-border, cross-disciplinary approach. The program will have a special focus on local journalists, underrepresented journalists in the U.S., and journalists from the Global South. The training program will have three tracks to target different groups within the newsroom: (1) in-depth workshops for newly minted AI reporters; (2) compact trainings for any journalist who occasionally covers AI; and (3) tailored workshops for assigning editors and visual editors. The training will teach journalists how to cover AI through an accountability lens, giving them the confidence to fact-check sources, the knowledge to hunt for inconvenient truths, and the mindset to center often ignored and vulnerable communities who are impacted by the technology. The award provides flexible support to the AI Spotlight Series.

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting (Pulitzer Center) is a nonprofit organization that works to support independent journalists to undertake reporting projects across the world, which explore underreported issues. It also furthers public understanding of this work through education and public outreach initiatives. This grant supports the Pulitzer Center’s general operations, and the intended outcomes are that more in-depth reporting on critical social issues reaches wide audiences and deepens public understanding of the interconnected nature of global and local issues.

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting (Pulitzer Center) works to raise awareness of underreported global issues through direct support for in-depth journalism, and through education and public outreach. Each year, the Pulitzer Center awards $2 million in direct grants to individual journalists and places their stories in a range of news outlets that reach wide audiences. The majority of the journalists supported are independent freelancers with deep experience in the topics and regions from which they report. The Pulitzer Center also works with schools and colleges to host events with its journalists, and develop curricula to deepen students’ understanding of global and local issues. This award supports the general operations of the Pulitzer Center. The intended outcome of this award is more underreported stories from around the world by independent reporters made widely accessible to the public, and more opportunities for young people to engage with the findings of this reporting, through outreach programs.  

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is a nonprofit journalism organization that supports and disseminates international enterprise reporting. It is a leader among the new generation of noncommercial newsrooms working across media platforms and in collaboration with others to bring important and under-reported stories from around the world to American audiences. MacArthur's unrestricted support enables the Pulitzer Center to fund freelance reporters to pursue in-depth reporting on systemic global issues; place those stories with news outlets that have significant audiences; and create educational materials based on those reports for classroom use. At a time when there is little investment in broad international news coverage (beyond headline events, conflicts and disasters), the Pulitzer Center is filling an important - and expensive - news and information gap, and helping to inform and engage Americans on relevant global issues.

The Pulitzer Center is a leader among the new generation of nonprofit journalism organizations working across media platforms and in collaboration with others to bring important and underrreported stories from around the world to American audiences. The Center enables both experienced and newer foreign correspondents to pursue investigative and explanatory reporting projects around the world through grants and editorial support. It then works with each correspondent to package and pitch his/her report to major news outlets for publication, including The New York Times, Huffington Post, and PRJ's The World. While this model continues to work well, Pulitzer's track record in delivering high quality multi-media international reporting has led some news organizations to seek a partnership that begins earlier in the reporting process so that both organizations can have a role in shaping the story's content and its presentation to audiences (as a print article, photojournalism slide show, documentary video, interactive website, e-book, or some combination). MacArthur funding is helping the Pulitzer Center to launch a $1 million "Catalyst Fund" to support these deeper collaborations.