General news updates from the Pulitzer Center.
In the U.S. 1 in 4,800 women die in childbirth. In Nigeria it is 1 in 48. In the one-hour character-driven documentary, The Edge of Joy, filmmaker Dawn Sinclair Shapiro closely follows an ensemble cast of Nigerian doctors, nurses, midwives and religious leaders as they battle the second largest maternal mortality rate in the world.
Sunday, June 6 - 1:15pm – 2:45pm
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is co-hosting several skill building sessions for the Women Deliver Conference's Young Leaders at the Washington Convention Cener at 801 Mount Vernon Place NW, Washington, DC 20001-3614.
These sessions will discuss various ways and tools to communicate advocacy messages, including through multimedia (video, music, photography, etc); blogging and new media/web; radio and tv; and mobile technology.
On June 2, 2010, Pulitzer Center Executive Director Jon Sawyer gave the following remarks at the opening reception for college presidents and provosts at the Bonner Foundation's Summer Leadership Institute and 20th Anniversary Celebration, being held at Berea College in Berea, Kentucky.
It's such an honor to be here. When I look around the room, and the list of colleges that are part of the Bonner Foundation family, so many associations come to mind:
Today the Pulitzer Center, a nonprofit that sponsors and produces award-winning international journalism, launched a new interactive site focused on maternal mortality issues, "Dying for Life".
To increase engagement with global maternal mortality issues, They are also partnering with the writers' site Helium to sponsor a writing contest about maternal health.
The International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC) blog, Akimbo, has featured Christina Maria Paschyn's Untold Stories post on maternal mortality and video interview with IWHC consultant Jennifer Redner. Read an excerpt:
Executive Director Jon Sawyer will discuss the Pulitzer Center's coverage of water issues as a model for new approaches to coverage of big systemic issues, working with news-media outlets, educational institutions and NGOs to raise visibility and build public engagement.
Event Description
Annie Paul, The Pelican
Just back from writing poems in India, internationally acclaimed poet and UWI alumnus Kwame Dawes sat down with Annie Paul for an engaging discussion about his life, his alma mater's role in shaping him as an artist and the Emmy Award-winning LiveHopeLove project.
Sean Gallagher will speak about his reporting and multimedia work for China's Growing Sands in the Biodiversity Seminar at the Shanghai World Expo on May 31, 2010. The exposition will take place in the Belgium-EU Pavilion.
Managing Director Nathalie Applewhite describes the role photography plays in the work The Pulitzer Center supports.
Excerpt below from Conor Risch:
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The Pulitzer Center is proud to partner with The George Washington University as the newest member of the Campus Consortium.
DotSpots is proud to announce an expanding partnership with The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
"Our mission is to increase understanding of international issues that too often go underreported," said Jon Sawyer, the Pulitzer Center's executive director. "The DotSpots model has the potential to help the center in its mission by exposing our reporting projects to new and diverse audiences."
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