April 20, 2012 / Foreign Policy
Micah Albert

A photographic tour of the toxic otherworld in Dandora--Nairobi's mountainous wasteland.

April 16, 2012 / Untold Stories
Tomas van Houtryve

North Korea's rocket launch was meant to be the main attraction of the biggest national celebration in decades. The government's admission that the rocket failed to attain orbit is unprecedented.

A trash picker in Dandora, Kenya.
April 13, 2012 / Untold Stories
Micah Albert

Dandora, Nairobi's primary dumping site, is over capacity. Yet the willingness and ability of government officials to decommission it within the next five years remain in doubt.

April 5, 2012 / Untold Stories
Cedric Gerbehaye

At least 100,000 refugees from fighting in the South Kordofan and Blue Nile regions of Sudan are at risk, desperately short of food in makeshift refugee camps along the border with South Sudan.

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Published and Broadcast

Reports by Pulitzer Center journalists for print, online and broadcast news outlets
April 20, 2012 / Foreign Policy David Conrad, Micah Albert
For Nairobi's poorest, the enormous trash dump that's slowly killing them is also the only thing keeping them alive.
April 20, 2012 / Newsweek Trevor Snapp
In the jungles of the Central African Republic, Trevor Snapp and Scott Johnson try to understand how Joseph Kony, the Lord's Resistance Army leader, has managed to evade capture for so long.
April 19, 2012 / Foreign Policy Anna Badkhen
A new e-book published by Foreign Policy in collaboration with the Pulitzer Center details reporter Anna Badkhen's experience in Afghanistan during the war, embedded with the Afghan people.

Untold Stories

Reports from the field - an exclusive channel of Pulitzer Center reporting
April 20, 2012
Keyla Beebe
In Cambodia local human rights and environmental groups protest both illegal and legal logging that is fueled by government-granted “economic land concessions.”
April 18, 2012 Greg Constantine
Denied citizenship by their homeland, Burma, and undocumented and unrecognized as refugees in Bangladesh, the Rohingya remain a stateless people.
April 17, 2012 Simeon Tegel
The Andes' glaciers are rapidly melting as global temperatures continue to rise. Climate change has already taken a heavy toll on the glaciers of Antisana, Ecuador’s fourth highest mountain.

Projects

Reporting projects commissioned by the Pulitzer Center
Trevor Snapp, Alan Boswell
An immersive, transmedia book project for the iPad on the birth of the world's newest country from photographer Trevor Snapp and reporter Alan Boswell.
Tomas van Houtryve
With the same ruthless skill that it keeps its population in check with, North Korea also keeps journalists in the dark. But much can be learned from the outside looking in.
Simeon Tegel
From Tijuana to Tierra del Fuego, climate change is gripping Latin America. Simeon Tegel reports on the human consequences of drought, hurricanes, and melting glaciers.

Gateways

Gateways contain multiple Pulitzer Center reporting projects that focus on a single issue
A collaborative investigation into the water sector in Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Liberia in partnership with local journalists and their outlets.
From the gold in our jewelry to the shrimp at our favorite restaurant and the minerals within our electronics, the true cost of production—both social and environmental—too often remains hidden.
The initial shock of the earthquake has passed but Haiti continues its struggle to overcome both man-made and natural disasters.

Education

Global Gateway inspires students to become active consumers and producers of news and information
April 18, 2012
Jenna Krajeski
Pulitzer Center grantee Jenna Krajeski talks about how she became interested in the Kurdish "stone-throwing kids"--children imprisoned as adults under Turkey's harsh anti-terror laws.
April 12, 2012 Jennifer McDonald
Resources for teachers and students ahead of Dominic Bracco's classroom visit.
April 9, 2012 Tim Judah
Can the Scottish National Party convince Scottish voters to approve a divorce from the United Kingdom?

Blog

News and views from the Pulitzer Center team
April 13, 2012 Tom Hundley
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Tom Hundley highlights this week's report on the importance of water for peacebuilding in Ivory Coast and the need for more in-depth reporting on reproductive health.
Child Brides Panel Participants
April 13, 2012 Jennifer McDonald
Hundreds hear from Jon Sawyer and Cynthia Gorney at Wake Forest University community event focused on child marriage.
April 12, 2012
Campus Consortium Partner George Washington University convenes symposium on "Moving the Planet Forward."

Campus Consortium

Our Campus Consortium initiative forges dynamic relationships with colleges and universities
Guilford College is guided by a strong Quaker heritage and one of three North Carolina schools within the Triad-area Consortium of the Pulitzer Center's growing university network.
One of our earliest "journalist tours" included a stop at the University of Miami with a focus on under-told stories from South America.
Boston University is one of the Consortium partners that has experimented with diverse ways of linking Pulitzer Center journalists with BU students, faculty and the broader community.
At the heart of the Pulitzer Center-Davidson College Campus Consortium are international reporting grants for students through our partnership with the Dean Rusk International Studies Program.