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News and views from the Pulitzer Center team
The 21 Pulitzer Center student fellows from our Campus Consortium partners this year will report on a range of complex issues from around the world—from public health to the environment.
Thailand's downgrade to "Tier 3" highlights rampant exploitation in the shrimp industry and lack of intervention by the government.
A new Pulitzer Center interactive map spotlights a remarkable success, and one that has gone under-reported — the extraordinary decline in the rate of child mortality.
June 16, 2014
Extraordinary gains have been made in reducing under-five child mortality, but millions still die every year. The remarkable progress made is proof that more can—and should—be done.
June 13, 2014
Fiona Lloyd-Davies' documentary on rape in the Congo is lauded as a "visually stunning and gut-achingly harrowing new film."
June 12, 2014
With one of the largest “youth bulges” in the region, Saudi Arabia’s demographic landscape is undergoing significant change.
June 2, 2014
Pulitzer Center grantee Meera Senthilingam, in a report for CNN Health, notes that tuberculosis has long been known as a disease of poverty.
May 27, 2014
In February, Pulitzer Center grantee Josh Hammer boarded a UN flight to Kidal, becoming the first journalist to visit the bleak outpost in the Malian desert since last November.
May 19, 2014
Last week Turkey began burying the dead from the country’s worst-ever coal mining disaster. The toll is expected to exceed 300.
May 19, 2014
Photographer Robin Hammond honored for his focus on mental health in Africa, student fellow Varsha Ramakrishnan for her reporting on dowry violence in India.
May 12, 2014
Millions of women from poor countries work as caregivers in America, part of a massive but largely invisible workforce.
May 12, 2014
Pulitzer Center-Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health student fellow honored for her article on dowry violence in India.
May 9, 2014
Watch award-winning documentary focused on one version of climate change adaptation in Bangladesh: floating schools.