Pulitzer Center

12/19/2025

To close the year, the Pulitzer Center is excited to announce the annual “A Year in Photos.” This year-end feature showcases the extraordinary and stunning work of photojournalists covering underreported stories worldwide.

The photographs presented portray in-depth investigations through unique angles and perspectives that allow us to understand and empathize with the unknown, and foster a relationship with people and stories from afar.

“The stories behind the photos are unexpected: A photo of frogs is actually a global health story about the links between wildlife and human health. A photo of an elderly woman is a story about artificial intelligence, after she was denied a pension due to a faulty algorithm that determines social welfare in Peru. An image of a little girl in a classroom is a climate story, as her school in the Himalayas was destroyed by flooding from melting glaciers. These images show us the very real effects of big issues, like climate change and AI, that can feel vague and distant until we see how people’s lives are directly affected,” writes lead curator .

In 2025, the Pulitzer Center supported over 800 stories in more than 90 countries; the images featured in “A Year in Photos” are only a fragment of all of these reporting projects. However, they exemplify the importance and impact of our work around the globe.

“The American writer Susan Sontag once said: ‘To collect photographs is to collect the world.’ That’s exactly how I felt joining my formidable colleagues in deciding on the Pulitzer Center’s “2025 Year in Photos,“” said Rozina Breen, director of editorial programs. “I’ve been a longtime admirer of the photography that the Center supports. The depth and breadth is simply stunning.”

Explore the Pulitzer Center’s “2025: A Year in Photos” I'm the link in our bio.

12/19/2025

To close the year, the Pulitzer Center is excited to announce the annual “A Year in Photos.” This year-end feature showcases the extraordinary and stunning work of photojournalists covering underreported stories worldwide.

The photographs presented portray in-depth investigations through unique angles and perspectives that allow us to understand and empathize with the unknown, and foster a relationship with people and stories from afar.

“The stories behind the photos are unexpected: A photo of frogs is actually a global health story about the links between wildlife and human health. A photo of an elderly woman is a story about artificial intelligence, after she was denied a pension due to a faulty algorithm that determines social welfare in Peru. An image of a little girl in a classroom is a climate story, as her school in the Himalayas was destroyed by flooding from melting glaciers. These images show us the very real effects of big issues, like climate change and AI, that can feel vague and distant until we see how people’s lives are directly affected,” writes lead curator Grace Jensen.

In 2025, the Pulitzer Center supported over 800 stories in more than 90 countries; the images featured in “A Year in Photos” are only a fragment of all of these reporting projects. However, they exemplify the importance and impact of our work around the globe.

“The American writer Susan Sontag once said: ‘To collect photographs is to collect the world.’ That’s exactly how I felt joining my formidable colleagues in deciding on the Pulitzer Center’s “2025 Year in Photos,“” said Rozina Breen, director of editorial programs. “I’ve been a longtime admirer of the photography that the Center supports. The depth and breadth is simply stunning.”

Explore the Pulitzer Center’s “2025: A Year in Photos.”
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12/17/2025

The “2025: A Year in Stories,” an end-of-year special feature that highlights reporting projects selected by the Pulitzer Center staff, features five projects and stories supported through our Peace and Conflict focus area.

From Japan, the atomic bomb survivors tell their stories in an effort to warn us about the dangers of nuclear war; testimonials from a family in Sudan shed light on the roots and consequences of the civil war; a series of portraits depict life in Syria after the Assad regime collapsed; in Ukraine, teenagers are learning how to navigate growing up during a conflict, and in the frontlines scientists and medics fear that the war is creating superbacteria resistant to multiple antibiotics.

The work of Natalie Keyssar, George Butler, Nicolas Niarchos, Richard Stone, and Scott Michels is represented in this selection by Pulitzer Center staff: Elliott Adams, Alexandra Waddell, Sarah Swan, Grace Jensen, and Nathalie Applewhite.

Explore all the in “2025: A Year in Stories” in the link in our bio.

12/16/2025

The “2025: A Year in Stories,” an end-of-year special feature that highlights reporting projects selected by the Pulitzer Center staff, features five projects and stories supported through our Peace and Conflict focus area.

From Japan, the atomic bomb survivors tell their stories in an effort to warn us about the dangers of nuclear war; testimonials from a family in Sudan shed light on the roots and consequences of the civil war; a series of portraits depict life in Syria after the Assad regime collapsed; in Ukraine, teenagers are learning how to navigate growing up during a conflict, and in the frontlines scientists and medics fear that the war is creating superbacteria resistant to multiple antibiotics.

The work of Natalie Keyssar, George Butler, Nicolas Niarchos, Richard Stone, and Scott Michels is represented in this selection by Pulitzer Center staff: Elliott Adams, Alexandra Waddell, Sarah Swan, Grace Jensen, and Nathalie Applewhite.

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12/15/2025

Educators: Connect your class with global issues, and the journalists who cover them, at a time that works best for you.

With a virtual journalist visit on-demand, students and educators can learn more about global health inequities and the journalism process at your own pace. In this video, freelance journalist Molly Knight Raskin shares more about her Pulitzer Center-supported project, “Cuts and Consequences: The End of USAID,” introduces the concepts of foreign aid and international development, details her reporting process to capture this story, and answers some frequently asked questions from students.

Access the video recording, explore activities and discussion prompts that prepare students to engage with the video, and resources for students to share their takeaways, opinions, and questions with one another after they watch.

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12/12/2025

The Pulitzer Center is now accepting applications for Reporting Fellowships focused on issues related to Mental Well-Being in the U.S!

Current students at our Campus Consortium partner schools and recent graduates (classes of 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025) are encouraged to apply.

Applicants may propose projects on multiple platforms—text and/or multimedia, including video, audio, and documentary photography.

The deadline for applications is Monday, January 5, 2026, at 11:59pm EST. Reporting will take place in spring or summer 2026.

Learn more about this opportunity in the link in our bio.

12/11/2025

The Pulitzer Center is now accepting applications for Reporting Fellowships focused on issues related to Mental Well-Being in the U.S!

Current students at our Campus Consortium partner schools and recent graduates (classes of 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025) are encouraged to apply.

Applicants may propose projects on multiple platforms—text and/or multimedia, including video, audio, and documentary photography.

The deadline for applications is Monday, January 5, 2026, at 11:59pm EST. Reporting will take place in spring or summer 2026.

Learn more about this opportunity!
👉 https://bit.ly/4pXgfNE

12/10/2025

In the final event from the 1619 Global Connections Series on Saturday, December 13, we’ll be discussing how AI accountability journalism can help students investigate the benefits and harms of the technology around them.

Join the conversation to hear from two of the Pulitzer Center's 2022 AI Accountability Fellows as they share more about their reporting projects and how AI technology can impact individuals, communities, and society overall.

We will hear from Hilke Schellmann, whose Pulitzer Center-supported project “Are AI Hiring Tools Racist and Ableist?” investigates AI tools utilized in hiring processes and whether those tools treat applicants fairly and equally, or indicate discriminatory and illegal practices. We’ll also be joined by Arijit (Ari) D. Sen, whose reporting centers a social media monitoring company that is used on at least 36 college campuses across the U.S., and raises questions about the ethics of using AI technology to monitor students. In his Pulitzer Center-supported project, Peering Into the Black Box, Sen highlights the growing use of opaque “black box” artificial intelligence products by campuses, often without any knowledge or input from students, parents, or members of the public.

There’s still time to save your spot, join the conversation, and walk away with resources and strategies for connecting America's origin stories to contemporary global issues in your class.

Register now!
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12/10/2025

The Pulitzer Center’s ‘2025: A Year in Stories’ features reporting projects that reveal how failed AI systems are affecting welfare programs and their beneficiaries in Europe and Latin America; expose the online platforms generating and distributing child abuse content; trace how crime syndicates are exploiting tech platforms for scams; and follow big tech companies' infrastructure expansion in drought-ridden territories across the globe.

These stories by Emily Fishbein, Peter Guest, Fabiola Torres, Rocío Romero, Jason Martínez, Pablo Jiménez Arandia, Daniela Dib, Muriel Alarcón Luco, Sofia Schurig, Leonardo Coelho, Tatiana Azevedo, Eileen Guo, Gabriel Geiger, and Justin-Casimir Braun are just a small example of Center-supported reporting through our Information and Artificial Intelligence Focus Area.

Learn more about Pulitzer Center staff Joanna Kao, Marina Walker Guevara, Federico Acosta Rainis, Maria H. Karienova, and Flora Pereira da Silva's story selections this year.

Explore all the in ‘2025: A Year in Stories’ 🌎🌍🌏

Find them in the link in our bio.

12/05/2025

Today, the newly installed U.S. vaccine advisory committee voted to stop recommending the hepatitis B vaccine at birth.

The Pulitzer Center-supported reporting project “Silent Killer” reveals how the disease disproportionately affects Asian Americans, and how public health experts are joining community members to promote more screening and vaccination. Screening and vaccination have been proven to drive down hepatitis B infection, which can lead to liver failure and can be unknowingly passed on from a mother to her infants at birth.

Learn more in the stories by journalists Zhe Wu and Mel Baker for the San Francisco Public Press.

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More than half of people in the U.S. living with chronic hepatitis B are Asian American, despite this group making up just 7% of the population. That disparity is dangerous because hepatitis B is...

12/05/2025

2025: A Year in Stories
As 2025 wraps up, the Pulitzer Center team takes a moment to reflect on the journalism that moved, surprised, challenged, and impacted us. Every December, we are proud and excited to share a hand-picked selection of Pulitzer Center-supported stories.

These stories—selected from over 800—include both the big global investigations and the more intimate local stories. This year’s selection exposed how missionaries secretly planted audio devices in the Amazon to target uncontacted Indigenous peoples; forced major tech platforms to confront AI-generated child exploitation imagery; documented marine heat waves and their growing threats to ocean ecosystems; traced the global fallout of the dismantling of USAID, and more.

This is an opportunity to hear directly from the stewards of Pulitzer Center projects—from our editors guiding the journalistic process, to educators implementing civic literacy programs that reach classrooms around the world, to engagement specialists bringing Center-supported journalism to audiences and communities who need it most.

Dive into these stories and learn why they resonated with us.

Explore our 2025: Year in Stories at the link in our bio.

12/05/2025

2025: A Year in Stories 🌎🌍🌏
As 2025 wraps up, the Pulitzer Center team takes a moment to reflect on the journalism that moved, surprised, challenged, and impacted us. Every December, we are proud and excited to share a hand-picked selection of Pulitzer Center-supported stories.

These stories—selected from over 800—include both the big global investigations and the more intimate local stories. This year’s selection exposed how missionaries secretly planted audio devices in the Amazon to target uncontacted Indigenous peoples; forced major tech platforms to confront AI-generated child exploitation imagery; documented marine heat waves and their growing threats to ocean ecosystems; traced the global fallout of the dismantling of USAID, and more.

This is an opportunity to hear directly from the stewards of Pulitzer Center projects—from our editors guiding the journalistic process, to educators implementing civic literacy programs that reach classrooms around the world, to engagement specialists bringing Center-supported journalism to audiences and communities who need it most.

Dive into these stories and learn why they resonated with us.

Explore our 2025: Year in Stories!
👉 https://bit.ly/YIStories25 🗺️