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August 09, 2009 | WGN

Jason George and Jon Sawyer interviewed on WGN

On August 9, Jason George and Jon Sawyer were interviewed on WGN's "Sunday Papers with Rick Kogan" about "Greenland: Languages on Thin Ice," a reporting project with the Pulitzer Center.

"Languages on Ice" examines the work of prize-winning Professor Lenore Grenoble, who is looking at how Greenland has done so well at retaining its native tongue despite incredible environmental and societal pressures.

See below for the 30-minute audio interview, divided into four parts.

July 19, 2009 | Los Angeles Times

Drug Cartels Imperil Immigrants in the Desert

See Related Slideshow by David Rochkind on the Los Angeles Times site.

Reporting from Altar, Mexico — On a cloudless afternoon in northern Sonora, migrants and drug runners lounge in equal numbers under scattered mesquite trees, playing cards or sipping water. The sun climbs high and the temperature rises well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. In such heat, nothing, human or otherwise, moves more than required.

May 13, 2009 | Knight Digital Media Center

Jon Sawyer Q and A with Online Journalism Review

David Westphal, Online Journalism Review

What are the two new qualities that journalists of the future must embody? They must be entrepreneurial and they must be multimedia. These are precisely the qualities that animate the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

Almost five years ago now, my wife (Geneva Overholser) and I sat in Jon Sawyer's living room in Washington, D.C., and listened to him spin out what sounded like an improbable tale. He wanted to set up a nonprofit center on foreign reporting, and he wanted a philanthropist to bankroll it.