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View this feature as it ran on European Journalism Centre's website.

October has been a good month at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting: The non-profit grant foundation saw reporters it sent to China and Iraq publish extensive reporting projects that gained attention across the United States. It also won an honourable mention from the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovation in Journalism.

Pulitzer Center grantee Loretta Tofani appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal to discuss her series about how Chinese workers lose their health and lives making cheap products for export to the U.S.

By Elizabeth A. Lehnerer
Originally published in the Collinsville Herald

Last year, Collinsville High School teachers invited journalists from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to speak to students about efforts to restore a national park in Mozambique.

This year, Pulitzer and a sixth-grade teacher from Harlem gave CHS students something a little closer to home to think about.

South America Discussion Series

October/November 2007

Presented by: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting / Virginia Quarterly Review

South America : Untold Stories

Journalists Bring their Stories Home

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November 5 : Washington University in St. Louis

In partnership with Sigma Iota Rho, Washington University's International Studies Honorary Society, International & Area Studies and Latin American Studies

OneWorld, an online civil society portal, highlighted the Pulitzer Center's reporting initiative on Liberian youth.

OneWorld highlighted the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting India project on September 27, 2007 in the Today's Newssection of its website. The mention reads, "Freelance journalist Jason Motlagh unearths the India beyond Bollywood and the info-tech boom. Keep up with his blogs and photo reports on the country's rural poor, who are dealing with flooding and a four-decade-long guerrilla insurgency."