Julia Manipella, a senior creative media production student at Gaylord College, has been announced as a recipient of a Pulitzer Center Campus Consortium Reporting Fellowship. Manipella is the first student from the University of Oklahoma to receive this prestigious honor made. This is made possible by the Nicole and Evan H. Katz International Reporting Program, a generous $500,000 endowment established by Evan and Nicole Katz.
The fellowship will see Manipella traveling to Bangladesh this summer to report on emerging climate actions led by the country's youth aimed at pursuing sustainable practices in a country dealing with some of the worst pollution in the world. The University of Chicago Energy Policy Institute ranks air pollution in Bangladesh as the world's worst, cutting life expectancy by 7-8 years.
The Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellowship offers students and recent graduates the opportunity to pursue independent journalism projects both globally and in the United States. Topics range from climate change, migration and refugees, to global health, race and identity, and human rights. Reporting Fellows benefit from mentorship, networking opportunities, and journalism resources provided by the Pulitzer Center.
Work by Reporting Fellows is often published in major news outlets, such as the New York Times, Miami Herald, Politico, NPR, and The Guardian.
Gaylord College is proud of Manipella's accomplishment and looks forward to her impactful reporting.
