Jon Sawyer profiled in Phillips Exeter Academy's Bulletin

Pulitzer Center Executive Director Jon Sawyer is profiled in the Fall 2009 edition of The Exeter Bulletin, a magazine for the alumni/ae and parents of Phillips Exeter Academy. The article provides an overview of the Pulitzer Center's mission, and Jon discusses the Center's establishment and work to encourage innovative journalism.

"International Journalism, Version 2.0: Table Talk with Jon Sawyer '70"

By Karen Ingraham

When Jon Sawyer '70—founder and director of the nonprofit Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting—wanted to provide news coverage on the HIV/AIDS crisis in Jamaica, he didn't send a reporter. He sent a poet.

One year later, the project has won a News and Documentary Emmy award, and is the model for a new form of journalism innovated by the three-year-old Pulitzer Center—where news stories become campaigns, and old media is blended with new.