Jon Sawyer, Pulitzer Center
Two weeks of briefings and field interviews on water and sanitation, first in Istanbul at the World Water Forum and then in Ethiopia, leave three indelible impressions.
Jon Sawyer, Pulitzer Center
Population Services International (PSI), the non-profit long known for its international distribution of condoms, is all about prevention – which is why PSI is now a big player on clean water, too.
For Pakistani television journalist Shehryar Mufti it's the underreported role of water resources in his country's long-running conflict with India over Kashmir.
Jon Sawyer, Pulitzer Center
This dispatch was featured on the St. Louis Beacon's online publication on 3-23-09 as an Editor's Pick.
ISTANBUL, Turkey – An international gathering devoted to water's dominant role in global disease and health was rich in rhetoric and sparse on anything in the way of tangible policy breakthroughs.
Jon Sawyer, Pulitzer Center
Alison des Forges, the Human Rights Watch researcher and Rwanda scholar who was killed in the crash of a commuter plane near Buffalo last Thursday night, touched so many people in so many different ways. For those of us who did not know her in person perhaps the best tribute we can give is to learn her story, to understand the profound difference one individual can make, and to follow her lead.
Alex Amend, Pulitzer Center
Round 6 of our Global Issues/Citizen Voices contest asked writers to analyze the hyper-complicated state of local, regional and global Indian affairs.
Jon Sawyer, Pulitzer Center
Buyouts, layoffs, the shuttering of foreign bureaus and a relentless reduction in dollars committed to news – it's as if every editor or publisher in America has simultaneously decided to dispense with quaint notions of journalism as a public trust or what used to be regarded as the essential watchdog function of journalism in making democratic self-government work.
Pulitzer Center Staff
Torrey Meeks, a finalist in YouTube's and the Pulitzer Center's first-ever reporting contest, was published by the Washington Times today. Meeks, who lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico, was hired as a stringer after meeting with David Jones, managing editor of the Times, during a dinner hosted by the Pulitzer Center last month.
Alex Amend, Pulitzer Center
GlobalPost.com, a new for-profit and online journalism outlet, launched last week with a bold mission: Reestablishing traditional international journalism values in the digital age. The Pulitzer Center is pleased that original reporting from its own journalist grantees will be featured on GlobalPost.
Alex Amend, Pulitzer Center
Project: Report, YouTube and the Pulitzer Center's first-ever reporting contest for aspiring non-professional journalists, came to an inspiring close for all parties involved this week.
Alex Amend, Pulitzer Center
Ann Peters, Pulitzer Center
They tell the stories of undocumented workers and a soup kitchen manager, a former addict-turned-counselor and a homeless vet, a Native American grandmother and a North Carolina dairy farmer. Profiles of individuals of significance in their communities.
They are the 10 semi-finalists from some 100 entries in Round 1 of the joint Pulitzer Center/YouTube Project:Report. And they are embarking on Round 2 with an assignment to tell a local story with a global impact.
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