Proposals for an international reporting project will be accepted until Feb. 15 by Gaylord’s Foreign Reporting Center. Funded by the Pulitzer Center, the international reporting project will permit the chosen student/students an opportunity to tell a story they investigate.
What is the Pulitzer Center: The Pulitzer Center partners with individual journalists, news organizations and Campus Consortium partners to support in-depth, high-impact reporting on topics of global importance. The Pulitzer Center’s financial support extends to local and national news outlets in the United States and around the world. The Campus Consortium is a network of partnerships between the Pulitzer Center and colleges and universities to engage with students and faculty on the critical global issues of our time.
Full story proposals outlining the scope of the story, the location and the cost are due Feb. 15, 2023. The chosen project will receive $4,000 in funding from the Pulitzer Center. Stories will be reported during summer 2023. Funding is also available to hire a “fixer” who could help with translation and logistics. A Pulitzer Grantee will be assigned by the Pulitzer Center to mentor the chosen student on their story. Stories must be reported in three parts -- print, photo/multimedia and video. Students are invited to utilize a story pitch form to help focus their story ideas.
What is a Pulitzer Center story: The Pulitzer Center is interested in reporting projects that focus on topics of global importance, with an emphasis on issues that have gone under-reported in the mainstream American media. We see great value in covering critical issues ranging from the environment, global health, and women’s economic empowerment to refugees and migration, food insecurity, struggles for resources, human rights abuses, or peace and conflict.
Examples of stories reported by the Pulitzer Center’s 2022 reporting fellows can be found here: pulitzercenter.org/blog/announcing-2022-pulitzer-center-reporting-fellows. Click on each name to be taken to that Fellows project.
Reporting Fellows benefit from Pulitzer Center mentorship, networking opportunities, and journalism resources. Most importantly, they become part of a vibrant community. Articles, photo essays, video, audio, and interactives produced by Reporting Fellows are featured on the Pulitzer Center website and in multiple news outlets, such as the New York Times, Miami Herald, Politico, NPR, and The Guardian.
Information and mentoring: Additional information and mentoring in developing story ideas is available from journalism faculty members including Mike Boettcher and John Schmeltzer.
