A free press stands as a bulwark against authoritarianism, government corruption, environmental exploitation and countless other wrongs and human rights violations found around the world. Pulitzer Center stories tagged with “Media” feature reporting on journalists and news organizations, their reporting techniques and methods, as well as their importance in preserving healthy democracies.Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on media.
BBC Business Daily interviews Pulitzer Center grantee, Hannah Lucinda Smith, about her reporting on the booming cryptocurrency industry in Russia and how it relates to U.S. sanctions.
Executive Editor Indira Lakshmanan speaks to Update-1 about the Pulitzer Center's work supporting U.S. news organizations.
Technology is transforming China, helping improve life in some ways, but also collecting big data. The government is beginning to convert that data and surveillance footage into social credit scores, which critics say can be used to penalize those who criticize the Communist Party. Nick Schifrin reports as part of "China: Power and Prosperity," with support from the Pulitzer Center.
Indian newspapers feel they need ad sales agents a lot more than they need reporters. Here's why.
The nuts and bolts of the Indian media machinery are completely broken, perhaps far more than India’s global media ranking suggests. The problem is systemic.
In Sudan, civilians and the military have reached a power-sharing agreement. But how will they implement it?
Facebook’s enforcement of its own rules during the Ukrainian election was a Potemkin village of regulations riddled with cracks and loopholes that were easily exploited, writes grantee Nina Jankowicz.
Ukraine's recent election was driven by the same media impulses as the 2016 US election; now it's up to the media to stop producing infotainment and start producing content for the public good.
The press needs to be truthful yet even-handed, but in an era when lies travel around the world faster than the truth, do journalists need to leave behind old models of "both sides" journalism?
What are the advantages and pitfalls of journalists soliciting donations from readers, foundations and grant-makers, and knights in shining armor trying to save journalism with infusions of cash?
Podcasting is finding its niche in small communities, providing a space for creative expression.
Pulitzer Center grantee Ian Johnson interviews Zhang Shihe, one of China’s best-known citizen journalists and makers of short video documentaries.
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.
Sean Gallagher received “Highly Commended” acknowledgement for his short film Cambodia Burning.
A $950,000 fund will support professional reporting projects and programs in K-12 schools and colleges.
Grantees Patricia Clarembaux and Almudena Toral’s report on Salvadoran women and suicide won a News & Documentary Emmy Award.
A project investigates the effects of COVID-19 on Americans experiencing homelessness and facing eviction.
Marina Walker Guevara has been elected to the Board of Governors of the country’s largest association of journalists engaged in international news.
"Growing Up Through the Cracks" investigates childhood poverty and governmental dysfunction in southwestern Pennsylvania.
Bringing together 16 journalists from 11 countries, free, bilingual webinars will explore ways to improve reporting on an important global issue.
Kiran Misra will travel to the origin sites of Chicago’s four largest immigrant populations to report on factors that drive immigration to the U.S. Midwest.
Photographer Sean Gallagher discusses his work and the impact of COVID with Alison Stieven-Taylor of Photojournalism Now.
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Students explore the importance of international journalism by analyzing an interview with veteran reporter Marvin Kalb.
Students analyze how photojournalist applies different photography techniques to communicate his reporting on a variety of global issues in order to plan and execute their own photo stories.
This group of lessons explores the interplay between religion and power. Students evaluate the degree to which religious forces impact the strength of a country's democratic institutions.
The following global affairs lesson plan for history, ELA, Spanish and Humanities teachers investigates the use of technology in Mexico to combat corruption and the impacts of that activism.
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 Guernica with current day issues presented from The Pulitzer Center.
This lesson provides resources for teachers in Winston-Salem, NC as they create lesson plans connected to the "Dispatches" exhibition at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA).
The following global affairs lesson plan for history, ELA, Spanish, and Humanities teachers investigates the use of technology in Mexico to combat corruption, and the impacts of that activism.
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 "Guernica" with current day issues presented by the Pulitzer Center.
This is a painting lesson that combines Pablo Picasso's famous 1937 Guernica with current day issues presented by the Pulitzer Center.
This lesson plan outlines a project that allows students the opportunity to connect with a contemporary crisis somewhere in the world.
Students will compare two kinds of visual journalism documenting the end of the war in Afghanistan.
Students will analyze whether technology can increase citizens’ abilities to fight corruption when speaking out can result in jail time or death.
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