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Bringing Stories Home

Bringing Stories Home is the Pulitzer Center's initiative designed to help U.S. newsrooms cover the big, underreported stories that affect us all—and through education and other outreach promote the public engagement that is essential if our democracy is to thrive.

News outlets eligible for participation in Bringing Stories Home include all those serving U.S. cities in which population ranks 21st or lower. The Pulitzer Center is already actively working with partner outlets in many such cities, from Louisville to Tucson to St. Louis. Bringing Stories Home represents a major investment in local news, providing resources to cover stories that might not otherwise get told. 

Support for Bringing Stories Home is provided in part by an unrestricted endowment gift from the Facebook Journalism Project. Support for reporting projects also comes from the Omidyar Network, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the MacArthur Foundation, Humanity United, and other generous donors to the Pulitzer Center.

Bringing Stories Home

October 26, 2020 | Scriibe

Grief is Purgatory

Imani Dawson

For two months, I laid on my couch tortured by what I could’ve and should have done.

October 26, 2020 | Scriibe

Community and Hope Amid Disaster

Rob Fields

The pandemic reminded us all that not only are we stronger together, but that our fates are intertwined in this globally connected world like never before.

A Lost Generation

Perla Trevizo

How a cycle of debt and increased enforcement is leaving a void in some rural Guatemalan schools and villages.

Dairyland in Distress

Mark Hoffman, Rick Barrett, Maria Perez, Bill Glauber

Dairy farms—Wisconsin's economic engines—have been decimated in recent years due to decreased demand, lack of workers, and slumping milk prices.

Fleeing Violence, Mexicans Seek Asylum in the U.S.

Rebecca Plevin, Omar Ornelas

For decades, people have migrated from the Mexican state of Guerrero for economic reasons. But now, people are leaving Guerrero not to improve their lives, but to save their lives.

Civil Asset Forfeiture in St. Louis

William H. Freivogel

Liberal and conservative justices criticize abuses of civil asset forfeiture. Groups from CATO to the ACLU do too. Republicans and Democrats want change, but much of the reform agenda is unfinished.

Asset Forfeiture in Texas

Edgar Walters, Jolie McCullough, Neena Satija

In each of Texas' 254 counties, a host of local agencies can use civil asset forfeiture to help cover their expenses. But the system's lack of transparency and accountability makes it ripe for abuse.

October 11, 2019 | General news

Pulitzer Center Announces 2019 Connected Coastlines Grantees

PULITZER CENTER STAFF

The Pulitzer Center is pleased to announce our 2019 Connected Coastlines grantees, a consortium of newsrooms and independent journalists across the United States who are using rigorous science reporting to document and explain the local effects of climate change on U.S. coastal populations. 

July 19, 2019

Timbs v. Indiana, Explained

Caroline Ford

Timbs v. Indiana was a case involving civil asset forfeiture decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2019. It is a significant step toward judicial reform of civil asset forfeiture practices.