Thousands of Burmese cross the border into Thailand each year to escape corruption in their home country. They work 12-hour days and make just two dollars a day, but to them, it's worth it.
Published and Broadcast
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Pulitzer Center grantee Tracey Eaton talks with Nelson Rubio on the Miami radio program Actualidad 1020 AM about a new text messaging campaign in Cuba.
Life after Hosni Mubarak has not quite turned out the way Egypt's young revolutionaries expected: Military tribunals have targeted dissidents, the Supreme Military Council extended the 30-year-old...
Iraqi journalists are harassed, beaten and murdered as the government takes violent steps to eliminate a free and open press.
Untold Stories
Reports from the field - an exclusive channel of Pulitzer Center reporting
Jenna Krajeski tells the story of three Kurdish boys and their unlikely friendship. Mazlon, Ferman and Hawar were arrested at local protests, accused of terrorism, and sent to prison.
In their dusty Renault, blasting Sublime song, Los Ifninos—surfers of Sidi Ifni—demonstrate their embrace of transculturation between Western and traditional Moroccan elements.
Thousands of Burmese cross the border into Thailand each year to escape corruption in their home country. They work 12-hour days and make just two dollars a day, but to them, it's worth it.
Projects
Reporting projects commissioned by the Pulitzer Center
While Turkey positions itself as a model for the "moderate" Islamic world, its Kurdish "stone-throwing kids"—imprisoned as terrorists—are at a crossroads between integration and radicalization.
The words "surfing" and "Islam" do not generally go together. Yet in Morocco, on Islam's Western shore, surfing has become an increasingly popular sport, attracting waveriders from around the globe.
Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, has become the murder capital of the world. Most vulnerable are Los Ninis, young men and women who earned their name from “ni estudian,...
Gateways
Gateways contain multiple Pulitzer Center reporting projects that focus on a single issue
The initial shock of the earthquake has passed but Haiti continues its struggle to overcome both man-made and natural disasters.
The Downstream Gateway examines global issues related to water, from ecosystems and watersheds to freshwater resources, conservation efforts, and the impact of human activity and public policy.
The Dying for Life Gateway is a response to the global maternal health crisis. The Gateway examines motherhood as a continuum that encompasses reproductive health, family planning, pregnancy,...
Education
Global Gateway inspires students to become active consumers and producers of news and information
Fred de Sam Lazaro explains the source of declining birth rate in Brazil and how it could enhance women’s role in the society—a topic of his project “Brazil: Girl Power.”
Isaac Stone Fish talks about his reporting for the project, North Korea’s Addicting Export: Crystal Meth, from Yanji, China.
Do the economic benefits of coal mining outweigh the environmental, health, and safety risks of the extraction process? This lesson explores the growing coal mining industry in Colombia, relating it...
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The Pulitzer Center-supported documentary "Easy Like Water" receives MacArthur Documentary Film Grant Award. The film is one of eight selected out of nearly 400 proposals.
Pulitzer Center congratulates Paul Franz for winning Online News Association Best Student Online Video Award
Actor Gael García Bernal was in Washington to receive an award and speak on behalf of Central America's voiceless migrants.
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October 6, 2011
Journalist and Pulitzer Center grantee, Anna Badkhen shares her experiences from reporting in Afghanistan and the stories of the people she met.
October 6, 2011
Pulitzer Center founding director Jon Sawyer will deliver the 2011-2012 James C. Millstone Memorial Lecture, presented by the Saint Louis University School of Law Center for the Interdisciplinary...
October 24, 2011
Crisis reporting in the digital era: how do foreign correspondents tell stories in a new media age?