The child support system that is set up to help children is also having a negative impact on poor families in Baltimore.
Maryland’s child support system often sets up poor families to fail, pulling parents, kids and communities under.
On primary day, it’s disproportionately black and rural voters who have to surmount hurdles.
Law enforcement agencies in Illinois have used the money and property seized from citizens to pay for a wide variety of items.
Homeowners, mortgage lenders, and other lienholders lost or will lose up to $2,796,140 in 2019 alone.
Kansas City has begun taking down Martin Luther King Boulevard signs after voters decided to reverse the renaming of Paso Boulevard after the civil rights leader.
The biggest county in the state, Greenville, will close 52 precincts.
As sea levels rise, septic tanks pose a destructive threat to water quality throughout the coast of Georgia.
Voters in South Carolina can get caught in the state's web of bureaucratic processes in many ways, whether they vote absentee by mail or in person on election day.
As sea levels rise, Georgia septic systems are running out of space.
A multi-part series on India's caste system and the effects of caste on individuals, especially on Dalits, or "untouchables."
How can coastal cities protect themselves from sea level rise? Berkeley Professor Kristina Hill shares the most effective strategies in Europe and the U.S.
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.
In January 2009, the Pulitzer Center again partnered with Helium to produce the sixth round of the Global Issues/Citizen Voices writing contest. The Pulitzer Center provided writing prompts, challenging contestants to craft essays on pressing international issues of the day.
Top winner Anita Lahiri answered the following question:
Where will the greatest points of conflict arise in India's foreseeable future and how should India act to resolve these conflicts?
On January 12, 2009 in Washington DC, YouTube hosted an event: "Broadcasting the World: The New Ecosystem for News Online." The panel ("Reeling Them In: Building an Audience for News Video") featured: Chris Cillizza, Journalist, The Washington Post, Jim Brady, Executive Editor of WashingtonPost.com, Ann Derry, The New York Times' Editorial Director of Video and Television, Refet Kaplan, Managing Director, Fox News, Lila King, Director of CNN iReport and Jon Sawyer, Execu
The Day After: Can Our Vision Survive? Retreat at the Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Organized by U.S. in The World, December 16-18, 2008
What I'd like to address, in considering the media's role in the event of another major terrorist attack, are three main points:
By Beth Laing
NOTE: We asked each of our 2009 Game Changers Awards finalists to write about their projects, what they've learned along the way and what's next. This essay written by Jon Sawyer, Executive Director of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
Thanks to all who have participated in Round 7 of our Global Issues/Citizen Voices writing contest. Your thoughts have further engaged readers on pressing international issues. Stay tuned for our next round of essay titles to write on!
In November 2008, The Pulitzer Center partnered with Helium to produce its fifth round of the Global Issues/Citizen Voices Writing contest, challenging contestents to write on the most pressing international issues of the day. Contestents chose from multiple writing prompts related to international issues and Pulitzer Center reporting projects to sculp their winning essays. Read the winning essays below.
By Laura Oliver
Journalism.co.uk
Since first beginnings in February 2005, the video-sharing website YouTube has gained a reputation for hosting the web's most weird and wonderful clips and turning individual users into viral sensations, such as 'Fred', whose channel has had over 15 million views.
Executive director Jon Sawyer and associate director Nathalie Applewhite provide a brief introduction to the Center's mission and approach as a non-profit journalism organization dedicated to supporting coverage of critical international issues.
Jon and Nathalie stress why the Pulitzer Center encourages participation in Project: Report, a contest the Center just launched in partnership with YouTube and Sony/Intel for aspiring journalists to tell the stories in their communities that would otherwise go untold.
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