2025

PULITZER CENTER ANNUAL REPORT

Image by Adam Ferguson. Australia, 2025.

The Pulitzer Center’s 2025 annual report is proof of journalism’s vital role in shaping our society and our future.
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Journalism changes harmful practices—see the project Investigating the Global Shark Trade in our Environment section.
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It exposes system failures—our Human Rights investigations demonstrate how negligence enables abusers, from high-ranking military officers to predators on dating apps, to escape accountability.
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It illuminates the world—from the painful realities of war in Sudan to scientists’ race to stop antibiotic-resistant superbugs.
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The kind of journalism the Pulitzer Center makes possible—what we call breakthrough journalism—also inspires curiosity, conversation, and purpose, especially when connected to schools and communities in creative ways.

In 2025, entries in our student poetry and letter-writing contests broke records, demonstrating journalism’s potential to empower youth voices and civic engagement. We transformed a multimedia project on the vanishing Thai mackerel into a traveling exhibition, I Miss You … Pla Tu, merging art and journalism to engage audiences across Southeast Asia who might otherwise never have seen the stories in the South China Morning Post.

From the United Nations climate conference to a convening of global health researchers, our panels and workshops ensured that accountability journalism informed the conversation. Our AI Spotlight training curriculum, now open-sourced and accessible to anyone, is equipping a growing community of journalists to report on AI’s profound influence on our world.

This report celebrates not only the accomplishments of one year, but marks a major milestone: This month, the Pulitzer Center turns 20 years old.

Belief in the power of journalism plus engagement has fueled the Center since its beginnings in 2006, and it will chart our course for the next two decades.
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We are deeply proud of the way our resources for journalists—the grants, fellowships, toolkits, and trainings—fuse with our education and public outreach programs to deliver long-lasting impact. Thank you to our many partners and donors who make this powerful work possible. And thank you to our journalist grantees, whose commitment to the pursuit of truth inspires us all.

In these times of unprecedented change and challenges, we are excited about what’s ahead in 2026, and we can’t wait to tell you about it.

And now, we want to hear from you! Help us inform the work we do this year and beyond.

LISA GIBBS, PRESIDENT & CEO

Richard W. Moore, ChairMAN of the Board

In 2025, we supported

239

projects

929

STORIES

333

journalists

IN

97

COUNTRIES

Image by Adam Ferguson. Australia, 2025.

FOCUS AREA

Climate & Environment

Image by Hugh Kinsella Cunningham. Uganda, 2025.

The Pulitzer Center's Climate and Environment initiatives support journalism and audience engagement on the most pressing issues facing the planet's ecosystems and the communities who rely on them. Topics covered by Pulitzer Center reporting include rainforests, oceans, climate change, pollution, extractive industries, and more.

EDITORIAL HIGHLIGHTS

Image by Henrique Santana. Brazil, 2025.

CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT JOURNALISM

A Folha de S. Paulo story by Rainforest Investigations Fellow Flávio Ferreira revealed that a Brazilian congressman used funds from congressional amendments for heavy machinery to pave an illegal road in the rainforest through his family’s land, causing deforestation and invading Indigenous territory. This prompted anti-corruption organizations to file a petition calling for a federal probe.

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Image by Wirada Saelim. Thailand, 2025.

CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT JOURNALISM

Chocolates Melting Away is a short, award-winning documentary by Breech Asher Harani about the challenges facing cocoa farming and its future in Davao, Philippines. Through his lens, we saw not only the challenges brought by climate change but also the resilience and innovation of a community fighting to protect their way of life.

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CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT JOURNALISM

In Investigating the Global Shark Trade, a team of Mongabay investigative journalists revealed that Brazilian state-run institutions provided shark meat to public schools, hospitals, and prisons. Since 2004, more than 5,400 metric tons of shark meat have been procured, raising environmental and public health concerns. The investigation sparked industry debate and further inquiry in Brazil's Congress, as well as a lawsuit banning shark meat from federal procurements.

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Image courtesy of TVC News. Nigeria, 2025.

CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT JOURNALISM • STUDENT REPORTING

Damilola Oduolowu, of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, traveled to Lagos to cover the disappearance of coastal mangroves, highlighting the effects on the fishing industry. His video report, “Lagos’ Vanishing Mangroves,” aired locally on TVC News Nigeria.

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COP30

Across 20 panels at COP30, the Pulitzer Center’s participation at the U.N. climate conference in Belém, Brazil, focused on highlighting accountability in climate agenda conversations. We brought evidence and reported realities into the discussions, shared insights from rainforest reporting that unveils illegalities and crime, hosted online conversations on the environmental consequences of AI data centers, and showcased solutions from the ground up in our photo exhibition.

OUTREACH & ENGAGEMENT HIGHLIGHTS

Image by Opeyemi Alaran. Nigeria, 2025.

CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT ENGAGEMENT

With support from our Impact Seed Fund, the University of Lagos’ climate awareness program culminated in a curriculum review workshop with the goal to integrate climate education into university teaching. Academic leaders and early-career lecturers teamed up in analyzing subjects and using insights from climate journalism to enrich teaching materials.

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Image by Jetsada Leelanuwatkul. Thailand, 2025.

CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT ENGAGEMENT

Blending journalism and the arts, the “I Miss You … Pla Tu” outreach invited audiences to reflect on overconsumption and regulatory gaps that led to the decline of Thailand’s beloved mackerel. Over a one-year journey, this initiative reached over 1 million people and was presented at the Splice Beta media conference in Chiang Mai in November 2025.

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CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT ENGAGEMENT

Waki Ambiental received 180 applications from young content creators across Latin America. The program trained 10 creators to produce 10 video reels based on Pulitzer Center-supported journalism, reaching 250,000-plus views, 15,000 likes, and sparking lively online conversations. This program has since been adapted in Thailand and the Africa region.

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Image by Walter David Marino. United States, 2025.

CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT ENGAGEMENT

With the University of California, Berkeley Journalism School, we convened scientists and journalists for a focus on ocean research and reporting. Ocean Reporting Network Fellow Alexandra Talty, Vox journalist Benji Jones, and journalist Gladstone Taylor explored their work with more than 80 participants that also included journalism students, faculty, and community members.

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“Without hard facts, arts feels subjective. When journalism and arts collaborate, the result is something that neither can reach alone: understanding that moves from the head to the heart to the hands. As shown in ‘I Miss You … Pla Tu,’ reporting by Aidan Jones provides the facts while the performative dinner, exhibition, and arts residency provided emotional relevance and memorable experience.”

Pongpan Suriyapat, exhibition curator and multidisciplinary artist

FOCUS AREA

Global Health

Image by Melina Mara. Panama, 2025.

The Pulitzer Center's Global Health initiatives support vital reporting and audience engagement on systemic, interconnected health issues around the world. We value cross-border and collaborative journalism and encourage reporters to look into powerful interests that are threatening health globally.

EDITORIAL HIGHLIGHTS

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GLOBAL HEALTH JOURNALISM

Tragedy in Paradise linked a 2019 deadly measles outbreak in Samoa with anti-vax sentiment in the U.S. Atlanta News First TV reporters traveled to Samoa to revisit the deaths of more than 80 people, mostly children. A documentary,  TV reports, and text revealed how Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. bolstered local anti-vax sentiment prior to the outbreak. This station is part of a network reaching a third of TV-consuming households in Samoa.

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Image courtesy of PBS Newshour. Ghana, 2025.

GLOBAL HEALTH JOURNALISM

Cuts and Consequences: The End of USAID was a multipart TV project and documentary investigating the immediate damage from Trump administration cuts to U.S. global health support. PBS NewsHour reporters documented how HIV patients, including children and pregnant women, were left without testing or medicine in Africa, and a tuberculosis control program in Bangladesh was defunded.

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Image by Jennifer Roberts/S.F. Chronicle. United States, 2025.

GLOBAL HEALTH JOURNALISM

How Computers Can Conquer Superbugs, from the San Francisco Chronicle, took readers into the fight against antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections, now a leading global killer. With reporting in India and at Stanford University, this project explained how devastating these infections are, and how scientists are using AI to identify material for effective vaccines.

VIEW PROJECT

Image by Justin Hardiman. United States, 2025.

GLOBAL HEALTH JOURNALISM • STUDENT REPORTING

The Pulitzer Center’s first cohort of Mental Well-Being in the U.S. Reporting Fellows reported on mental health and resilience in Uyghur women who were forcibly sterilized; community-building efforts by LGBTQ+ farmers in the U.S. South; and the mental well-being of Black teachers amid curriculum upheaval in Mississippi.

“This project has shown me what it truly means to give a voice to those who have long been unheard. It has taught me how to build a story that is both investigative and intimate, systemic yet deeply human. Through this mentorship, I have grown not only as a journalist but also as a filmmaker.”

Retselisitsoe Khabo, multimedia editor at the MNN Centre for Investigative Journalism in Lesotho, reflecting on the impact of a PULITZER CENTER mentorship opportunitY

OUTREACH & ENGAGEMENT HIGHLIGHTS

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GLOBAL HEALTH ENGAGEMENT

Twenty-three Teacher Fellows connected 2,095 students from 23 U.S. states to Pulitzer Center-supported health reporting for lessons that resulted in student-generated infographics, local research and reporting projects, visual art, and more. Of the 600 students who responded to a post-lesson survey following our fall 2025 global health fellowship, 85% reported that they increased their understanding of global health topics.

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GLOBAL HEALTH ENGAGEMENT

Over 600 students engaged with Center reporting at the Journalism Education Association conference in fall 2025. Many went on to submit poems inspired by health reporting to the Ode to Healthy Futures poetry platform.

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Image by Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman/The World. Ghana, 2025.

GLOBAL HEALTH ENGAGEMENT

Nearly 150 public health leaders, researchers, and journalists joined us for a webinar during the Consortium of Universities for Global Health's Virtual Global Health Week. Our grantees reviewed their reporting on the international impacts of cuts to U.S. foreign aid. After examining the landscape, the panel discussed effective and non-partisan health journalism, sharing tips for collaboration between industries to improve scientific understanding and health outcomes.

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FOCUS AREA

Information & Artificial Intelligence

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The Pulitzer Center's Information and Artificial Intelligence (AI) initiatives support journalism and audience engagement on in-depth AI accountability stories that examine governments' and corporations’ uses of predictive and surveillance technologies to guide decisions in policing, medicine, social welfare, the criminal justice system, hiring, and more.

EDITORIAL HIGHLIGHTS

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INFORMATION & AI JOURNALISM

Data centers, infrastructure to support Big Tech’s vision of AI development, have taken a toll in the form of water shortages, higher electricity bills, and pollution. AI Accountability Fellow Pablo Jiménez Arandia’s investigations in Spain, Chile, and Mexico and AI Fellow Laís Martins’ investigation in Brazil have been used by local environmental and Indigenous groups in their own appeals.

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INFORMATION & AI JOURNALISM

Over 10 months, AI Accountability Fellow Sofia Schurig investigated AI-generated child sexual abuse material and the platforms that enable it. As a result of her reporting for Núcleo Jornalismo, Meta and Google removed content and apps that promoted the abuse material, and Brazil's consumer agency initiated a monitoring procedure against Meta.

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INFORMATION & AI JOURNALISM • STUDENT REPORTING

Damien Kanner-Bitetti explored the tension between safety and AI surveillance on college campuses in his report for the 2025 William & Mary Sharp Seminar. The article features Michigan State University, which implemented new surveillance technology after a 2023 on-campus shooting.

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FOCUS ON

The AI Spotlight Series, the Pulitzer Center’s flagship training on AI accountability reporting, has now reached over 3,000 journalists and editors across 114 countries. To further extend its reach, we released the curriculum online under a Creative Commons license in English. Versions of the curriculum in Portuguese, Spanish, French, and bahasa Indonesia are planned for the next few months.

OUTREACH & ENGAGEMENT HIGHLIGHTS

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INFORMATION & AI ENGAGEMENT

Thirteen civic engagement projects in 10 countries under the South to South AI Accountability CoLab are using AI reporting to promote the creation of a multidisciplinary community of practice, facilitate knowledge sharing between journalists and civil society, and support communities to build the knowledge needed to make informed decisions on the use of AI in everyday lives.

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INFORMATION & AI ENGAGEMENT

Using investigative methodologies she learned from a Pulitzer Center education program, Sherlina Purnamasari, while as a journalism student at Universitas Multimedia Nusantara in Indonesia, produced a documentary revealing how algorithm-based fares in Indonesia have unfairly impacted drivers and their livelihoods. Since its launch, the documentary has reached 90,000 views and sparked a conversation among more than 1,000 viewers. Methodology replications have enabled our story to reach a wider audience and revealed new data that enrich accountability discussions.

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INFORMATION & AI ENGAGEMENT

Our 2025 AI Teacher Advisory Council expanded the work of the 2024 AI Council by utilizing AI Accountability Teacher Toolkits to design a modular training that supports educators in developing a basic understanding of AI accountability and provides a guide for developing an effective teaching practice informed by AI accountability reporting. Council members engaged over 80 educators in their local school communities with their AI Accountability teacher training and plan to engage more in 2026.

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Image by Mikaela Schmitt. United States, 2025.

INFORMATION & AI ENGAGEMENT

We engaged 40 public health and medical experts, researchers, professors, and students to workshop ways to identify impactful AI stories within health research, communicate their work to broader audiences, and understand how to better collaborate with AI journalists. The workshop, which included grantee Hilke Schellmann, was part of the Annual Conference for the Consortium of Universities for Global Health, a network of over 190 academic institutions and our decade-long partner.

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“One key insight that stood out to me was the importance of [contextualizing] AI accountability within local realities. Understanding how AI harms manifest differently across regions enforced the need for bottom-up approaches that [center] lived experiences and inclusive governance.”

Relance Kataliko, DigiYouth Initiative, Peer Learning participant in the Democratic Republic of Congo

FOCUS AREA

Peace & Conflict

Image by Anna Donets. Ukraine, 2025.

The Pulitzer Center's Peace and Conflict initiatives support journalism and audience engagement on the roots of conflict and its connections with many underreported global issues, from mass migration to authoritarianism, to gender violence, and the struggle over natural resources. Pulitzer Center journalists sustain attention on global conflicts and investigate pathways to peace.

EDITORIAL HIGHLIGHTS

Image by George Butler. Syria, 2025.

PEACE & CONFLICT JOURNALISM

Grantee George Butler took his sketchpad and unique approach to journalism to Syria to tell the stories of ordinary citizens and their hope for a free Syria under a new government. His illustrations appeared in The Telegraph and The Independent in the U.K. and in the Virginia Quarterly Review in the U.S.

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Image by Adam Rouhana. Palestine, 2025.

PEACE & CONFLICT JOURNALISM

In a cover story for Harper’s Magazine, grantee Ben Ehrenreich reports on one of the overlooked outcomes of Israel’s brutal war in Gaza—the likely end of the nonviolent resistance movement on the West Bank, a movement now in full retreat as Israeli settler violence escalates and more Palestinians take up arms against Israel.

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Image by Nicolas Niarchos. Sudan, 2025.

PEACE & CONFLICT JOURNALISM

In an extraordinary piece of frontline reporting for The New Yorker, grantee Nicolas Niarchos joined with a team of war crimes investigators in Sudan to show how civilians are targeted by the insurgent Rapid Support Forces as well as units of the Sudanese Army in that country’s raging civil war.

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Image by Ella Gonzales. Poland, 2024.

PEACE & CONFLICT JOURNALISM • STUDENT REPORTING

More than 1 million Ukrainian migrants have sought refuge in Poland since Russia’s invasion in 2022. Texas Christian University Fellow Ella Gonzales’ reporting highlighted the stories of three women who have cultivated community in Krakow.

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“I think that hearing the personal stories of the people that [grantee] Natalie Keyssar photographed was extremely impactful. Often in the news, when reading about a crisis such as a war, I don’t hear about the personal lives of people impacted, but only how they have been affected by the war. I think it was a unique perspective to hear about the people’s lives separated from the war and helped to humanize them amidst the situation and teach us a more holistic understanding of the war and how it has impacted people’s daily lives.”

High school student in Philadelphia

OUTREACH & ENGAGEMENT HIGHLIGHTS

Image by Susan Greenwald. United States, 2024.

PEACE & CONFLICT ENGAGEMENT

A total of 5,323 students from 107 schools in 36 U.S. states and three countries connected with over 40 journalists for virtual presentations about their reporting. Students engaged with all five focus issues in 2025, but climate / environment and peace and conflict reporting were among the most requested focus issues this year.

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PEACE & CONFLICT ENGAGEMENT

In January 2025, 550 people filled the auditorium in Washington, D.C.’s main library to watch the Public Defender documentary and discuss the film, addressing political polarization and civil discourse. Taking inspiration from Heather Shaner—a public defender representing some of those charged in the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riots—and Shaner’s belief in the transformative power of education, event attendees donated over 100 books for prison libraries through DC Books to Prisons.

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Image by Sophie Neiman. Democratic Republic of Congo.

PEACE & CONFLICT ENGAGEMENT

The Pulitzer Center brought grantee Sophie Neiman to the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University for a conversation on reporting ethically and empathetically amid war. Neiman’s visit was part of Syracuse’s Silenced: Targeting Journalists and the Fight for Truth series, which examines threats to press freedom and the future of conflict reporting.

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FOCUS AREA

Human Rights

Image by Nicole Abudayeh. Spain, 2025.

The Pulitzer Center's Human Rights initiatives support vital reporting and audience engagement on topics including gender equality, racial justice, Indigenous rights, religion, and more.

EDITORIAL HIGHLIGHTS

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HUMAN RIGHTS JOURNALISM

Three powerful investigations exposed pervasive impunity in Mexico, Kenya, and the U.S. to hold sexual abusers accountable for their crimes, whether they are high-ranking military officers or predators taking advantage of dating apps’ failure to keep their platforms safe. In Kenya, reporting by grantee Rose Wangui for NTV resulted in the government requiring all defilement cases to undergo criminal prosecution rather than being settled out of court, which allows perpetrators to escape justice.

Image by Gideon Rogers. United States, 2025.

HUMAN RIGHTS JOURNALISM

Texas Public Radio’s Paul Flahive exposed systemic failures in Texas child protection through an extraordinary investigative series and public database of 1,200 abuse-related custody deaths. His reporting revealed gross oversight gaps, sparked debate among child welfare leaders, and raised lawmakers’ awareness of Texas Department of Family and Protective Services shortcomings.

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Illustration by Nicole Rifkin.

HUMAN RIGHTS JOURNALISM

Grantee Sarah A. Topol spent over six months reporting for her New York Times investigation into the dark side of the global fertility industry, detailing the stories of Thai women who traveled 4,000 miles looking for a job and found themselves trapped.

READ STORY

Image by Shandra Back. Dominican Republic, 2025.

HUMAN RIGHTS JOURNALISM • STUDENT REPORTING

Shandra Back, a Boston University Reporting Fellow, reported via text, photo, and audio on the aggressive campaign by the Dominican Republic to deport Haitian migrants. Back’s project reveals the human toll of policies designed to meet an unattainable quota of deportations.

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"When I was a student, hearing directly from people working in the field helped me see what was possible beyond the classroom. Sharing my work was a way to give back, to show that storytelling can be both purpose-driven and impactful, and that their voices can make a difference too. I wanted them to see that every story they tell, no matter how small, has the power to change perspectives.”

Neenma Ebeledike, Pulitzer Center grantee

OUTREACH & ENGAGEMENT HIGHLIGHTS

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HUMAN RIGHTS ENGAGEMENT

A record-breaking 3,300 students and 643 educators participated in our 2025 student contests, representing 39 U.S. states, 40 countries, and Washington, D.C. In a survey, 97% of students reported that they increased their understanding of the global issue they wrote about through the program, and 98% of students agreed that journalism can be a useful starting point to take informed action on the issues they care about.

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HUMAN RIGHTS ENGAGEMENT

Six 1619 Impact Grantees from across the U.S. engaged hundreds of community members, using 1619 materials to inspire dialogue and action around advancing democracy in their local contexts. Their innovative engagement models, ranging from media days for students to collaborations between history and theater classes, will be published during Black History Month.

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Image by Vania André. Haiti, 2019.

HUMAN RIGHTS ENGAGEMENT

We supported a two-day interdisciplinary campus visit to Spelman College by grantees Vania André and Neenma Ebeledike, whose reporting examines the intersections of environmental harms, climate justice, and human rights across the African diaspora, including post-earthquake Haiti. The visit reached 118 students and faculty across a wide range of disciplines, modeling how investigative journalism can be embedded deeply within academic inquiry.

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Awards & Recognition

Image by Evgeniy Maloletka. Greenland, 2025.

Stories supported by the Pulitzer Center were recognized with 42 awards in 2025, including a Pulitzer Prize, Peabody, and World Press Photo award, along with numerous acknowledgements for science, data, and public service journalism.

Illustration by Emiliano Ponzi/The New Yorker.

"Relentless" Investigation of Haditha Massacre Wins Pulitzer Prize, Peabody Award

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Image by Tatsiana Chypsanava. New Zealand.

Grantee Wins Prestigious World Press Photo Award for Series on Indigenous Community

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Pulitzer Center Project on Illegal Airstrips in the Amazon Rainforest Wins Global Shining Light Award

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Image by Ingrid Barros/Mongabay. Brazil.

RIN Fellow's Series on Illegal Cattle Ranching Wins Top Environmental Journalism Award

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Multimedia Series on the Labor of Indian Fisherwomen Wins Awards

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Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Image courtesy of Grace Jensen. Morocco, 2025.

In the past five years since publishing our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion mission statement and commitments, we have expanded the diversity of the journalists and newsrooms we support, strengthened accessibility and inclusion for our audiences, and committed to ongoing evaluation of our efforts. In 2025, our efforts centered around intentional outreach, partnerships, and amplification of audience-generated tools that expanded diversity and strengthened inclusion for our audiences and staff.

Image courtesy of Abraji. Brazil, 2025.

Targeted outreach, intentional grantmaking for student and professional journalists, in-person and on-demand training for journalists,  grant partnerships,  and the integration of translation tools for journalism grant applications contributed to a 110% increase in the number of countries journalist-grantees were from  in 2025. For the third time since launching our DEI statement in 2020, over 50% of journalism grant recipients self-identified a race/ethnicity other than white, and nearly 50% self-identified as female or nonbinary.

Image by Eric Selemani. Cameroon, 2025.

Dozens of webinars, news outlet collaborations, and in-person workshops and conferences increased accessibility to reporting and centered historically underrepresented voices at the forefront of discussions about their own communities. Over 40% of outreach events featured a speaker who identified as a race/ethnicity other than white, and over 50% featured grantees who self-identified as female or nonbinary.

Image by Javonte Anderson/Capital B Gary. United States, 2024.

An increased focus on recruiting our journalism and outreach partners to support documentation of inclusion efforts led to the publication of methodology reports focused on audience-centered engagement and reporting.

image courtesy of Sarah Swan. Morocco, 2025.

Feedback we received from biannual engagement surveys to our over 60 staff members in 18 countries supported refinement of performance coaching materials, a draft AI usage policy, and over a dozen staff engagement and training activities.

Journalist Grantees: Race and Ethnicity
Journalist Grantees: Gender
K-12 Education: Race and Ethnicity
K-12 Education: Gender
Reporting Fellows: Race and Ethnicity
Campus & Outreach: Race and Ethnicity

Thank you to our donors

Image by Grace Jensen. United States, 2025.

Support for the Pulitzer Center in 2025 came from Ar­nold Ventures, Clinton Family Foundation, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Ford Foundation, Fore River Foundation, Gates Foundation, Golden Globe Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Green South Foundation, Henry L. Kimelman Family Foundation, Humanity United, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Julian Grace Foundation, Laudes Foundation, Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, Luminate Group, Norad, Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI), Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab, Omidyar Network, Open Society Foundations, Park Foundation, Poklon Foundation, Schmidt Family Foundation Stavros Niarchos Foundation, IV Fund, Trellis Charitable Fund, Walton Family Foundation, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, and our Campus Consortium partner schools.
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This broad mix of foundation funding, along with continued core support from members of the Pulitzer family, board members, and many other generous individuals, ensures the independent journal­ism, civic engagement, and  education that is essential to our mission. We are grateful to all who continue to sustain our work and to those who may support us in the future.