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Featured Lesson Plan:
Five Lesson Plans to Celebrate World Press Freedom Day
May 3 is World Press Freedom Day, and this year's theme is Keeping Power in Check: Media, Justice, and the Rule of Law. Share the importance of a free press and an engaged public with your students with these five multimedia stories highlighting the responsibility and the hazards of being a journalist. Each story is accompanied with a lesson plan to guide critical discussion and allow students to assume the role of a journalist, stretching their analytical skills and exercising empathy.
Featured Opportunity:
Fighting Words Poetry Contest and Workshop
K-12 students in the U.S. and abroad are invited to submit to the Fighting Words Poetry Contest for the chance to win cash prizes up to $100, publication, and performance opportunities. DEADLINE: May 18, 2018
Pulitzer Center staff is also available to facilitate a workshop to guide students in crafting successful entries. Schedule a workshop in your school by emailing [email protected]
Featured Reporting Project:
Documentary Short: Extreme Weather from the Arctic
What's the link between the vanishing Arctic sea ice and extreme weather? Eli Kintisch reports for Vox in this video.
Featured Blog:
Facing History: Reflections on the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Alabama
Pulitzer Center Executive Director Jon Sawyer reflects on Alabama's newly opened memorial to lynching victims.