The Bumpy Road to Vaccine Trial Participation
As a minority, I wanted to participate in a vaccine study. I had no idea how difficult that would be.
As a minority, I wanted to participate in a vaccine study. I had no idea how difficult that would be.
Grantee Sky Chadde discusses reporting on one of the largest COVID-19 outbreaks at a meatpacking plant in the country — Triumph Foods in St. Joseph, Missouri.
Novavax plans to apply for European regulatory approval for its vaccine candidate.
Valerie Nichols lived in the St. Louis neighborhood where she was raised and gave back until she was physically unable. Her work helped keep residents living in 675 low-income apartments safe.
Once oysters are purchased from growers along the East Coast, they’re used to "reseed" damaged and dying reefs in New Jersey waters and elsewhere.
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted film festivals and similar events across the globe. Fortunately, many festivals adapted and held hybrid events or online screenings for movie goers.
Food insecurity has soared during the pandemic, but Alamo City drivers in Texas came up with a solution: Get meals to the hungry.
Vaccinemakers must now quickly decide how to handle the unblinding issue.
At the start of the pandemic, Cielo’s family was forced to close their empanada business. The San Francisco high school student tells her family’s story in this graphic memoir.
Severe allergy-like reactions in at least eight people who received the COVID-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech over the past 2 weeks may be due to polyethylene glycol (PEG), a compound in the packaging of the messenger RNA that forms the vaccine’s main ingredient, scientists say.
Are COVID-19 vaccines for pets and other animals necessary? How will they be developed? And how quickly could they become available?
The coronavirus crisis has compounded other problems in the troubled case at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
In 2016, the number of unaccompanied homeless youth reached 100,000 for the first time ever, and experts suggest official numbers are much higher. With school out indefinitely during the coronavirus crisis, the race is on to find these "Hidden Homeless" and help them.
Since leaving the service, Dustin Jones, USMC veteran and filmmaker, has lost more friends to suicide than he did in combat. Jones, a Columbia Journalism School Reporting Fellow, follows Marine veteran Bill Kirner as he struggles with PTSD and suicide.
From the mountains to the sea, an analysis of how North Carolinians struggle and survive as a virus tests the life blood of their communities.
In 2010, life expectancy in neighborhoods just west of downtown St. Louis was just 67 years. That was pre-pandemic. Here's how the most vulnerable families struggle to survive today and day by day.
The AP's global network reports on how the coronavirus outbreak is affecting the world's poorest and most vulnerable people.
Women and people of color are being disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus. The 19th and The Philadelphia Inquirer profile women as they confront this unprecedented challenge.
How are the Pulitzer Center team and its Campus Consortium community responding to the COVID-19 pandemic? This is a space for all to reflect, report, and record our experiences. Contributions welcome!
Veteran public health journalists from Science magazine explore what science knows—and is learning—about the burgeoning pandemic.
Campus Consortium initiative brings Pulitzer Center-supported journalists to the college for series of seminar workshops throughout the year, ultimately leading to independent reporting by students around the globe.
This investigation challenges universities to reexamine their ties to dispossession and will show how land-grant universities profited from Indigenous land in stunning detail.
This series explores the competing political narratives over the efficacy and morality of private prisons and whether they are good for employees, inmates, and the economies of the small towns that often house them.
The Bangor Daily News is painting a statewide picture of what is, and isn’t, being done to hold county law enforcement officers to account in Maine.
Rieke Havertz, editor and writer for Taz, Die Tageszeitung, reports from Chicago on the sales of local gun shops, the strict gun laws and the neighborhoods that suffer most from violence.
Meet the reporter and photographer behind The Seattle Times' ocean acidification project.
Le Monde journalist Yves Eudes discusses his six-part reporting project on climate change in the Arctic.
Wake Forest University student reporting fellow Yasmin Bendaas examines the tradition of facial tattooing in Algeria.
Social media dominated the youth voting scene in the 2012 US presidential election. This trend seems likely to grow stronger over the course of the next election cycle.
Immigrants to Williamsburg, Virginia, have difficulty assimilating without the support of the large immigrant communities they might find in bigger cities.
How do Tohono O’odham tribal members feel about the primarily Latino migrants crossing through their reservation in order to pursue the "American Dream"? It's complicated.
Travelling across Pennsylvania and Ohio, Dimiter Kenarov explores the economic and environmental issues related to shale gas extraction, and the rising anti-fracking movement in the region.
Reporter John Schmid talks about the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's "Paper Cuts" project, an in-depth examination of how China has taken away one of Wisconsin's signature industries.
Boulder, known for its green ideology, is preparing to take over the town's electrical utility in an effort to become more sustainable and bring the power of choice back to the public.
Hawaii's ‘i’iwi honeycreeper may not last another generation and its extinction would change the biological diversity and culture of the islands.
Every five years the federal government passes a Farm Bill to outline agriculture and food policy. This year, interest groups are trying to get a policy protecting farmworker rights included.
Get to know our 23 Fall 2020 Teacher Fellows! Our Fellows have joined the education team for a virtual fellowship that launched on September 26, 2020.
Pulitzer Center grantee Sarah Shourd joined actor Dameion Brown and activist Liz Ogbu to discuss Shourd's play The BOX and solitary confinement.
Educators reflect on using The 1619 Project in the classroom throughout the 2019-2020 school year, and share activities they used in their classrooms.
Kiran Misra was honored for her reporting on urban development in Delhi and the new police superintendent in Chicago.
Emily Kassie details the filmmaking process, editorial decisions, and ethical considerations that went into the short film produced by The Marshall Project and PBS' FRONTLINE.
Brett Forrest, 2020 Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellow from Columbia University, helps produce The Heist—the Center for Public Integrity's first podcast.
Grantees David Abel and Andy Laub were honored for their film documenting the fight to save the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale.
The three recipients of the inaugural Eyewitness Photojournalism Grant will document underreported issues across the United States.
In this webinar, educators and students explored the profound impact of climate change on the Great Lakes region.
A coalition of 22 North Carolina newspapers is examining COVID-19’s economic impact on communities across the state, from the digital divide to child care shortages.
The proposed legislation comes as local news face economic strain and systemic challenges.
A $950,000 fund will support professional reporting projects and programs in K-12 schools and colleges.
Students explore reporting on civil asset forfeiture (the seizure of property police believe is connected to a crime), evaluate perspectives on "policing for profit," and make local connections.
Students learn about the techniques and value of oral history by looking at examples used in reporting, and developing their own projects by connecting historical events to their own community.
Students learn about how gold from illegal mines in Colombia winds up in American electronics, and the violence, labor conditions, and environmental consequences that result from this trade.
Students evaluate how climate change is impacting the land, people and wildlife on Cape Cod through close reading of the article "At the Edge of a Warming World" from The Boston Globe.
Students learn about the asylum-seeking process and family separation at the U.S.-Mexico border, while also exploring themes connected to migration and refugees more broadly.
Students explore how the Baltimore Sun conducted their deep investigation into the corrupt case of Sgt. Wayne Jenkins, a former police officer for the Baltimore Police Department.
Students learn about a Louisiana school accused of fabricating student records and abusing students. In tandem, they learn how journalists investigate a story, and the impact news can have on lives.
At the start of the school year, students might want to discuss global issues that arose over the summer. This lesson is intended to spark discussion on current events and ways to keep up with them.
Reading guides, activities, and other resources to bring The 1619 Project into the classroom and beyond.
This lesson introduces the question: Can we create a nutritious and affordable food system in a way that’s green and fair?
This activity aims to help students make connections with their counterparts around the world by exploring what young people in different countries do in their free time.
Conflict—difficult to define, but keenly felt. Explore these stories about under-reported aspects of conflict and peacebuilding.