Why I Failed to Catch Canada's Worst Serial Killer
It still haunts Lorimer Shenher that red tape hindered his attempts to question a man who later confessed to nearly 50 murders.
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It still haunts Lorimer Shenher that red tape hindered his attempts to question a man who later confessed to nearly 50 murders.
Almost a century of lead mining and smelting has poisoned generations of children in the Copperbelt town of Kabwe in Zambia.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette comments on its four-part series.
Can Marine Le Pen really remake France's National Front?
Suriname's most successful businessman has interests in industries from cement to ketchup. He's heading a government commission negotiating Alcoa's departure from the country.
When Alcoa arrived to mine Suriname in 1964, it pushed the slave-descended Saamaka off their land. As the Pittsburgh icon prepares to leave the country, the Saamaka fight for their rights.
A struggling country's past and future are shaped by Alcoa and its aluminum. Alcoa's dam electrified the South American country of Suriname even as it drowned a jungle.
As Alcoa prepares to leave Suriname, residents wonder how and if they'll follow through on promises to repair thousands of acres of mined land.
Laziness. Drunkenness. Financial irresponsibility. It's the poverty narrative everywhere. And everywhere it's part of the problem.
David Maurice Smith travelled to Attawapiskat to show the community in a cultural context that could help Canadians see beyond crisis and understand more about the lives of its residents.
Yemen's rural society is renowned for its unwavering resilience. But there has to be a breaking point. In a dusty wasteland in rural Taiz, that point of collapse is startlingly tangible.
An impoverished Ecuadorian community thrived in the 1990s making roof tiles—but their children paid a horrific price.
Argentina's economic crisis in the early 2000s threw tens of thousands out of work. For many, working for themselves as cartoneros, people who collect trash to sell to recycling centers, became the only option to put food on the table. But now the deteriorating trains used by cartoneros to...
Paraguay is the fastest growing soybean producer in the world bringing untold riches to a very poor and corrupt country. The bean fields stretch far into the distance, consuming the horizon with waves of green leaves and a stink like dead animals from toxic agro-chemicals.
Towns have...
Today Maoist insurgents keen to exploit the state's enduring weaknesses stalk the Hindu heartland. They are waging their "people's war" in under-policed areas where conditions are most fertile.
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights this week's reporting on the military coup in Mali's capital, Bamako and the feature on the families of China's migrant factory workers.
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights this week's reporting on water and sanitation in Liberia and Kenya's mountainous dump site called Dandora, as well as our 2012 student fellows.
Listen to Wake Forest Journalism Director Justin Catanoso discuss his school's partnership with the Pulitzer Center, Guilford College and High Point University.
Pulitzer Center Executive Director highlights this week's reporting from China, India and Liberia.
American Society of Journalists and Authors honors Lisa Armstrong with Arlene Award for "Articles that Make a Difference."
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights this week's reporting from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Ghana and Turkey.
Two years after the catastrophic earthquake, Kwame Dawes returned to Haiti to relay, through a soulful performance that blended poetry with photographs and music, stories of post-quake challenges.
Pulitzer Center grantee Dominic Bracco II was interviewed by Wired about his experience documenting Mexico's Los Ninis and what he hopes his photographs will convey to an American audience.
Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights this week's reporting from Afghanistan to Haiti.
Two years after the earthquake the Pulitzer Center visits Haiti, along with poet Kwame Dawes, for a special performance of the multimedia production “Voices of Haiti."
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights reporting on Los NiNis of Ciudad Juarez and the gentrification of Istanbul's Kurdish neighborhoods.
A collaborative investigation into the water sector in Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Liberia in partnership with local journalists and their outlets.