General news

Pulitzer Center Executive Director Jon Sawyer participated in a roundtable discussion November 1 at the Wilson Center on population reporting initiatives.

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is extending its efforts to promote news reporting on health and development issues to Europe thanks to funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

New Wave of Protests in Cairo

The phrase “Arab Spring” has a felicitous ring to it, but most Middle East analysts understood that it would take more than a season for the region to remake itself. And here at the Pulitzer Center, we understood the need to commit to this important story for the long haul. That is why we have been providing long-term support to journalists Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Ellen Knickmeyer and others who have been covering the Arab Spring from the beginning and who continue to file deeply reported dispatches from the field.

This week National Education Coordinator Mark Schulte highlights the Pulitzer Center's education outreach during FotoWeek DC.

Four African journalists have been selected to participate in the Pulitzer Center's collaborative reproductive health-reporting project.

As a part of FotoWeek DC, Pulitzer Center hosts a number of events that let you connect with some of the best photojournalists. All of them have demonstrated a unique approach to covering crises.

Pulitzer Center New Media Strategist Maura Youngman and Senior Editor Tom Hundley visit Elmhurst College for a panel discussion on crisis reporting in a digital era.

The College of William & Mary Reves Center for International Studies highlights a recent visit from Pulitzer Center grantees and former Pulitzer Center intern, Shannon Beydler.

This Week
A Bachelor Nation As Big As Texas

China’s draconian one-child policy helped check population growth in the world’s most populous country, but because of the ancient preference for sons, it has also thrown the country’s gender ratio completely out of whack. Today, for every 100 females in China, there are 120 males. In some areas the ratio is 100 to 150. This means that by 2020, China will have a nation of bachelors as large as the entire population of Texas.

Pulitzer Center grantees Andre Lambertson and Anna Badkhen were featured on the show Local Diversity to talk about their reporting from Haiti and Afghanistan on Women and Children in Crisis.

Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley issues a wrap-up of this week's content, highlighting Egypt's deathly Christian Coptic demonstration and Iraq's uncertain future as U.S. troops withdraw.

Pulitzer Center Executive Director Jon Sawyer delivered the 2011 James C. Millstone Memorial Lecture, titled "Bringing Stories Home: New Approaches to Covering the World."