Pulitzer Center

07/06/2025

Several 2025 Reporting Fellows will address the roots of conflict and its overlap with globally underreported topics, including authoritarianism, migration, and religion.

Read more about this year’s peace and conflict projects!
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07/04/2025

Legal action in Brazil cites Pulitzer Center-Supported investigation.

The Brazilian law group Prerrogativas has formally requested that the Office of the Attorney General open an investigation into Senator Damares Alves for actions taken during her mandate as minister of human rights under the Jair Bolsonaro administration (2019–2022).

The request is based on a Pulitzer Center-supported investigation by journalist Juliana Sayuri and her team for UOL, which revealed serious irregularities in the Abrace o Marajó program. Launched by Alves, the program promoted misleading claims of widespread child sexual abuse in the Marajó archipelago to justify land titling and development actions in the region.

Sayuri’s team found that the program’s efforts to distribute land use permits created a legal loophole that allowed evangelical churches to pressure riverside community members into “donating” part of their land.

These findings have prompted serious questions about how public programs are implemented and who ultimately benefits from them. They also highlight the importance of investigative journalism in shedding light on policies that may otherwise go unquestioned.

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Image Damares Alves (Republicanos-DF) speaks about Marajó in the Senate. Image by Roque de Sá/Agência Senado. Brazil. A progressive law group in Brazil, Prerrogativas, has requested that the country’s Office of the Attorney General open a formal investigation into Brazilian Senator Damares Alve...

07/03/2025

In both Spain and Mexico, the appetite for octopus is growing, but octopus populations are shrinking.

Artisanal fishers in both countries are holding on to traditional methods while embracing eco-certification schemes with stricter rules, aiming to safeguard not only the species but also their own way of life.

Experts note that while these measures can support coastal economies, they only truly benefit octopus populations when adopted collectively by all fishers in a region. In Mexico, however, widespread illegal fishing undermines these efforts.

Adding to the challenge, climate-related factors like warming ocean temperatures, well beyond the control of local fishers, are putting further pressure on both the species and the communities that rely on them.

Read this full story by Ocean Reporting Fellow Davide Mancini and reporter Paola Margu for Mongabay.
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07/02/2025

Are you feeling the heat this summer? So is the ocean.

If you're in the Northern Hemisphere, chances are you've endured a heatwave, or know someone who has. But have you considered what this extreme heat looks like beneath the surface?

In a report for "The New York Times", Ocean Reporting Network Fellow Delger Erdenesanaa uncovers how marine heatwaves, once rare, are now a recurring global trend.

From the chilly coasts of the UK and Ireland to the vibrant reefs of Australia, our ocean is facing unprecedented stress. Scientists have even coined a new term: "super marine heatwaves," referring to spikes in ocean temperatures that devastate marine life and disrupt global weather patterns.

The impact is alarming. Between January 2023 and March 2025, an estimated 84% of the world’s coral reefs experienced bleaching-level heat stress. In the Gulf of Maine, the Northern shrimp population has collapsed, from 27.25 billion in 2010 to just 200 million by 2023, highlighting the toll marine heatwaves are taking on biodiversity.

And it isn’t just an environmental crisis, it’s an economic and social one too. Entire communities, industries, and food systems are feeling the effects. Read more in the story below.

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Sea surface temperatures in 2024 broke records and about a quarter of the world’s oceans are experiencing temperatures that qualify as a marine heat wave. In recent decades, the oceans have warmed...

06/26/2025

This year, the Fighting Words Poetry Contest broke records with more than 1,800 entries from K-12 students in 26 countries! These young poets used their personal connections to urgent stories to create powerful and engaging poems.

By merging art and journalism, these poems, which respond to Pulitzer Center-supported stories, amplify youth voices on critical global issues.

Join us in celebrating the young poets' incredible work!
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06/23/2025

Call for proposals! The fourth cohort of the AI Accountability Fellowships is now open.

As the hype around generative AI is supercharging the spread of these systems, citizens have little insight into how they work, who profits from them, and who gets hurt.

That's why we are seeking journalists who want to report on the impacts of algorithms and automated systems on the lives of millions worldwide and how these systems are funded, built, and deployed by corporations, governments, and other powerful actors.

We are seeking to support projects on transparency and governance in relation to AI.

Learn more and apply before August 11, 2025!
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06/22/2025

Ten 2025 Campus Consortium Reporting Fellow projects will cover climate and environmental issues.

From illegal fishing in Costa Rica and air pollution in Pakistan to climate migration in Panama, the 2025 projects will explore the most pressing issues facing our planet.

Learn more about their projects!
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06/19/2025

In recognition of Juneteenth this week, we invite you to connect with resources around the history of enslavement in the United States by subscribing to our 1619 Education newsletter.

Each month, you’ll receive the latest Pulitzer Center-supported reporting on racial justice issues and curricular resources for both students and educators to engage with Black history, and recognize the lasting legacy of slavery in our contemporary society.

Explore student work created by learners of all ages as they connect with themes from The 1619 Project, and stay up-to-date on the latest events and opportunities for education professionals to get involved in racial justice education.

Subscribe now!
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06/19/2025

As Photoville Festival 2025 enters its final weekend, don’t forget to stop under the Brooklyn Bridge to experience our exhibit “Hollowed Out,” featuring Quinn Glabicki’s investigation for PublicSource into the environmental and human fallout of EQT’s fracking operations in Appalachia.

Earlier this June, we kicked off Photoville with “Visualizing the Invisible” events in New York with Quinn Glabicki and Stephanie Strasburg. During an opening weekend panel, the PublicSource journalists discussed how photographers build trust with communities to tell personal stories that humanize systemic issues. They also coached high school students during our workshop with Press Pass NYC & Bronx Documentary Center, helping them experiment with composition and storytelling principles in the neighborhood. Throughout the weekend, Quinn and Steph engaged community members in discussions on environmental injustice and local storytelling.

The exhibit will be on display at Brooklyn Bridge Park through this Sunday, June 22. Visit the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibit and see student photos from the workshop.

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*Images by Mikaela Schmitt and Stephanie Strasburg.

06/16/2025

Get to know Pulitzer Center's Reporting Fellows who will travel around the world to cover underreported Human Rights stories.

Learn more about this year’s Fellows who will cover Human Rights issues from South Korea and Pakistan to Portugal and the U.S.

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06/16/2025

“Ahora están en un momento empoderado”, dice Gisela Stablun, médica y directora de Salud Sexual y Reproductiva en el gobierno de la provincia de Buenos Aires. Habla de las fuerzas que trabajan contra la legalizacion del ab**to en Argentina, a pesar de que sea un derecho ya adquirido. [English below]

“Hay una desinformación o un intento todo el tiempo de desinformar o desestabilizar la política. Eso implica un doble esfuerzo para nosotras: poder seguir informando sobre la práctica y que los insumos necesarios lleguen”, dice, y agrega: “También nos pasa que las personas llaman para preguntar si todavía se puede abortar.”

El ab**to es legal en Argentina, pero el acceso ha cambiado de forma sutil y no tan sutil bajo la presidencia de Javier Milei. Elegido en noviembre de 2023, el líder libertario ha calificado el ab**to de “homicidio agravado” y ha recortado drásticamente la financiación del misoprostol y la mifepristona, medicamentos utilizados para realizar ab**tos. Durante el gobierno anterior, el estado compraba ambos medicamentos al por mayor y financiaba su distribución; los fármacos se administraban gratuitamente a través del sistema público de salud. El gobierno de Milei ha suspendido esta distribución, dejando la compra de medicamentos abortivos en manos de las autoridades provinciales. En las provincias con dificultades económicas o gobernadas por políticos que se oponen al ab**to, esto ha dejado a las mujeres con un acceso inadecuado a la atención médica.

Este capítulo forma parte del proyecto «Derechos de las mujeres en Argentina en la era de Javier Milei» de Anita Pouchard Serra y Natalie Alcoba publicado en The Dial Magazine y El Diario AR

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Abortion is legal in Argentina, but access has changed in subtle and not so subtle ways under the presidency of Javier Milei. Elected in November 2023, the libertarian leader has called abortion “aggravated murder” and has slashed funding for misoprostol and mifepristone, medication used to carry out an abortion. Under the previous government, the state made bulk purchases for both and paid for their distribution; the drugs were administered free of cost through the public health care system. Milei’s government has suspended this distribution, leaving the purchase of abortion drugs in the hands of provincial authorities. In provinces that are cash-strapped, or that are run by politicians who oppose abortion, this has effectively left women with inadequate access to care.

“Some provinces have seen access to abortion services practically dismantled,” according to Carlota Ramirez, who oversees the department of gender and health equality in the province of Buenos Aires. “The national government has also banned its technical teams from holding abortion training and has even prohibited discussion of abortion in work meetings,” according to Ramirez.

A report released in December by three research groups on reproductive rights describes how several provincial governments have difficulty meeting the sexual health needs of residents, largely because they have to absorb new costs. REDAAS, the Network of Safe Abortion Access in Argentina, said there has been a “brutal decline” in financing for measures that are essential to the delivery of free abortion services through the public health care system, as is guaranteed by law. In some cases, women must buy the medication themselves, which can cost around 170,000 Argentine pesos for both drugs (roughly $160, according to the official exchange rate) or 100,000 pesos for misoprostol alone ($90).

06/12/2025

When we think of “green finance,” we imagine projects that reduce carbon emissions, protect ecosystems, and drive sustainability forward. But what if those funds are being hijacked by the very companies fueling the climate crisis?

That’s exactly what Sasha Chavkin’s investigation for The Examination reveals: how some of the world’s biggest polluters are exploiting green finance mechanisms, benefiting from billions in sustainability-linked loans, while continuing business as usual.

At the Pulitzer Center, we believe journalism should be transparent and replicable. That’s why in addition to publishing the final investigation, we are also publishing the behind-the-scenes process:

▪️ How the data was gathered
▪️ The methodologies used
▪️ The dead-ends, breakthroughs, and collaborative tools that made it possible

Our goal? To help other journalists, newsrooms, and watchdogs learn, adapt, and scale up their own accountability reporting.

Read the full methodology article here!

In recent years, banks and corporations have poured trillions of dollars into finance they label as “green” or “sustainable.” Their claims about what this money will achieve sound impressive, but in...