October 3, 2011 / Untold Stories
by Jenna Krajeski

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.

October 3, 2011 / Untold Stories
by David Morris

In their dusty Renault, blasting a Sublime song, Los Ifninos—surfers of Sidi Ifni—demonstrate their embrace of transculturation between Western and traditional Moroccan elements.

September 30, 2011 / Time
by Jesse Hardman

Up to 3 million Burmese migrants have flooded into Thailand where employers are taking advantage, mistreating them and often paying little more than slave wages.

September 30, 2011 / National Journal
by Yochi Dreazen

Iraqi journalists are harassed, beaten and murdered as the government takes violent steps to eliminate a free and open press.

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Published and Broadcast

Reports by Pulitzer Center journalists for print, online and broadcast news outlets
Image by Peter DiCampo. Ivory Coast, 2011.
October 4, 2011 / Time by Peter DiCampo

Some of the worst massacres after the 2010 Ivory Coast presidential election took place in the western part of the country where people are still living in refugee camps and remain fearful of...

October 4, 2011 / Actualidad 1020 by Tracey Eaton

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.

October 4, 2011 / Democracy Now by Sharif Abdel Kouddous

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...

Untold Stories

Reports from the field - an exclusive channel of Pulitzer Center reporting
Libya art show. Libya, 2011.
October 6, 2011
by Ellen Knickmeyer

Creativity is blooming in Libya--the country's artists are finally able to show their work now that Muammar Qaddafi is no longer in power.

Water tankers waiting to fill up at the Greater Makurdi Water works
October 5, 2011 by Ameto Akpe
In Nigeria's Benue state, water is a scarce commodity and selling it is profitable business for some.
October 3, 2011 by Jenna Krajeski
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.

Projects

Reporting projects commissioned by the Pulitzer Center
by Jenna Krajeski
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.
by Ameto Akpe
Abandoned water and sanitation projects deprive the people of Nigeria of a basic human right: access to clean water.
Surfers riding the waves in Morocco.
by David Morris
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.

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
September 22, 2011
by Fred de Sam Lazaro

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.”

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June 16, 2011 by Isaac Stone Fish
Isaac Stone Fish talks about his reporting for the project, North Korea’s Addicting Export: Crystal Meth, from Yanji, China.
Colombian Coalmine by Anna-Katarina Gravgaard, Colombia, 2011
March 11, 2011 by Kate Seche
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...

Blog

News and views from the Pulitzer Center team...
October 5, 2011 by Jon Sawyer
Pulitzer Center Executive Director Jon Sawyer delivered the 2011 James C. Millstone Memorial Lecture, titled "Bringing Stories Home: New Approaches to Covering the World."
September 29, 2011 by Aria Curtis
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.
September 28, 2011 by Aria Curtis
Pulitzer Center congratulates Paul Franz for winning Online News Association Best Student Online Video Award