August 11, 2016 / The New York Times
Scott Anderson, Paolo Pellegrin

Scott Anderson's foreword to "Fractured Lands," from the August 14th, 2016 issue of The New York Times Magazine.

Au pairs walk back to the train after shopping at Loppemarked
August 1, 2016 / Rappler
Ana P. Santos, Allison Shelley

How do you go on a cultural exchange program and end up a pregnant undocumented migrant?

A boy rides a bike towards a brick kiln outside of Varanasi, India. Many kilns in the country rely on bonded labor. Image by Ann Hermes. India, 2016.
July 31, 2016 / Christian Science Monitor
Michael Holtz, Ann Hermes

India is home to 18.3 million modern slaves. Can mobilizing freed ones help change that?

7/26\\ NewsHour still
July 27, 2016 / PBS NewsHour
Nadja Drost, Bruno Federico

The economic disaster in Venezuela caused by low oil prices is also an environmental one.

Published and Broadcast

Reports by Pulitzer Center journalists for print, online and broadcast news outlets
August 12, 2016 / The New York Times Ben Solomon
Go inside the re-capture of Falluja with Ben Solomon's virtual-reality video for "Fractured Lands."
Grantee Ben Solomon
August 11, 2016 / The New York Times Ben Solomon
"The Fight for Falluja," the VR film by Ben Solomon accompanying The New York Times Magazine's "Fractured Lands" issue, is now available on the NYTVR app.
Orianda, 60, was first diagnosed with HIV and tuberculosis in 2013.
August 9, 2016 / PRI's The World Misha Friedman
Misha Friedman speaks to PRI's The World about photographing women living with HIV and tuberculosis in South Africa.

Untold Stories

Reports from the field - an exclusive channel of Pulitzer Center reporting
Beatrice Kamuchanga runs down the main road in Kirotshe, Democratic Republic of Congo.
August 2, 2016
Daniel Socha
Conflict continues to cause rampant poverty and despair in Kirotshe, Congo. Beatrice Kamuchanga, 19, overcomes challenges of life there and prepares to run the 5000 meter race in the 2016 Olympics.
With long sleeves and colorful scarfs these women begin picking coffee until the sun goes down. Image by Camila DeChalus. Colombia, 2016.
August 2, 2016 Camila DeChalus
Camila DeChalus exposes some of the obstacles and tribulations of a coffee farmer in Colombia who grapples with climate change amidst a 50-year internal war.
Special forces from Paraguay’s counter-narcotics agency SENAD patrol the lawless border with Brazil, where much of the country’s cannabis is grown, in Vietnam-era Huey helicopters. Image by Simeon Tegel. Paraguay, 2016.
August 1, 2016 Simeon Tegel
Paraguay is South America's largest producer of cannabis, accounting for 15 percent of the global supply, according to the UN. Its policy of repression is blamed for fueling corruption and human...

Projects

Reporting projects commissioned by the Pulitzer Center
Emily Baumgaertner
How close are we to a yellow fever pandemic?
Black and white image of children in silhoutte from an IDP camp in Iraq.
Scott Anderson, Ben Solomon
The unraveling of the modern Middle East, from the Iraq War to the rise of ISIS and the global refugee crisis. A landmark collaboration with The New York Times Magazine.
A young pregnant woman in her room in El Carpintero, a section of Petare, Caracas one of the largest Barrios in Latin America. Venezuela
Natalie Keyssar
In post-Chavez Venezuela, as an economic and political crisis threatens to plunge the country even deeper into chaos, daily life for many is a struggle for sustenance and safety.

Gateways

Gateways contain multiple Pulitzer Center reporting projects that focus on a single issue
This Gateway provides compelling material related to the role of women in society and the impact of industrialization and international development on women, children, and families.
The world's oceans are vital to the planet's health—and ours. How is this resource managed now and what are its prospects for the future?
Pulitzer Center journalists examine emerging nuclear threats, from an alarming new arms race between India and Pakistan to the competition between the U.S. and Russia on nuclear exports.

Education

Global Gateway inspires students to become active consumers and producers of news and information
Sinjar, Iraq. Image by Paolo Pellegrin. Iraq, 2016.
August 11, 2016
Paolo Pellegrin
Scott Anderson discusses how he chronicles the lives of six people to tell the story of the collapse of the Middle East. "We're all living with the fall-out of what has happened in this region."
Ben C. Solomon filming in Iraq. Image courtesy of New York Times.
August 11, 2016 Ben Solomon
Pulitzer Prize-winning filmmaker and video journalist for The New York Times, Ben C. Solomon, discusses his VR film, "The Fight for Falluja."
Malaria is public health issue in Cambodia’s rural area near forested areas, where both locals and migrants work in agriculture, wood cutting and mining. Image by Jeffrey Lau. Cambodia, 2016.
August 10, 2016 Leslie Roberts
Leslie Roberts, deputy news editor at Science, traveled to Myanmar, Cambodia, and Thailand to report on emergency efforts to eliminate malaria in the Mekong.

Campus Consortium

Our Campus Consortium initiative forges dynamic relationships with colleges and universities
The collaboration combines Johns Hopkins’ deep bench of top public health experts with the Pulitzer Center’s extensive experience supporting global health reporting for leading news outlets.
American University offers a balance between class time and career-advancing experience in Washington, D.C., and beyond.
Affiliated with State University of New York (SUNY), Westchester Community College continues its tradition as "Veteran Friendly Campus" and offers new Communications & Journalism Innovation Lab.
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.

Blog

News and views from the Pulitzer Center team
August 12, 2016 Scott Anderson
Scott Anderson, co-author of The New York Times Magazine's "Fractured Lands," speaks about his reporting on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."
Fractured Lands
August 11, 2016 Patrick Reilly
Read the backstory for "Fractured Lands" in this Poynter article.
August 10, 2016 Fareed Mostoufi, Jane Darby Menton
Connect students to this gripping modern history of the Middle East with lesson plans for K-12 and university students.