Image by Dado Galdieri/Hilaea Media. Brazil, 2023.
2024
Annual Report
Investigating the 2006 killings of civilians by U.S. Marines in Haditha, Iraq, in the New Yorker.
How an AI transcription tool used in medical settings is prone to hallucinations—including treatments that don’t exist, by The Associated Press.
Locating millions of acres of American land taken from Indigenous nations that now provide revenue to land-grant universities through industries such as mining and timber harvesting, in Grist.
Stories like these in 2024 underscore the essential role of journalism in equipping people with the information they need to address our many challenges together. Producing bold, rigorous journalism isn’t getting easier, but a task that has become equally important is making sure people see the stories in the first place. Audiences are increasingly scattered across digital and social media platforms, requiring new investments and thinking about how to connect journalism with communities in ways that build trust and accountability.
That’s why the Pulitzer Center’s model—supporting breakthrough journalism combined with intentional audience engagement—is so critical. We’re building bridges between stories and the people who need to hear them, while equipping journalists with the tools to dig deeper, and fostering connections that make the entire media ecosystem more resilient.
This year, we saw our new model start to generate real momentum and impact. We also welcomed a new CEO, only the second in the Pulitzer Center’s history. We honor the vision and tireless efforts of founder Jon Sawyer, who set the stage for the work we’re doing today and in the years to come. We also give thanks to our founding chair and bedrock supporter, Emily Rauh Pulitzer, who stepped down in June but remains an indispensable force.
Here’s a glimpse of some of the meaningful initiatives that have advanced our mission:
- Empowering Newsrooms: Since its April launch, our AI Spotlight Series has trained more than 1,600 journalists across the globe to investigate artificial intelligence—from its ethical challenges to its role in spreading disinformation. Our Data and Research team now provides investigative tools, interactive graphics, and data visualizations to help journalists and newsrooms dive deeper and better inform their audiences. Our reporting guides offer practical blueprints and tools for covering everything from ocean governance and social media misinformation to hidden supply chains.
- Inspiring the Next Generations: The lesson plans, journalist visits, and student contests led by our U.S. Education team in 2024 reached more than 42,000 teachers and students across 41 states. These programs help teachers spark curiosity and critical thinking in the students who are our future leaders. Reading the poems and letters students write is guaranteed to lift your spirits and inspire hope.
- Advancing Solutions on Critical Topics: We host discussions about the key issues raised by our journalism. At the United Nations climate conference (COP29), our panel on the role of investigative climate reporting sparked new collaborations and dialogues. We brought those insights to Belém, Brazil, where COP will be held this year, uniting 45 journalists, academics, decision-makers, and social movement leaders to discuss Latin America’s pressing environmental challenges. Such sessions demonstrate journalism’s role as a powerful resource for building knowledge and shaping public debate.
- Driving Community Engagement: Our StoryReach U.S. Fellowship, launched last spring, extended our core journalism grant programs to include innovative approaches to audience engagement. The participating nine local newsrooms have experimented with TikTok campaigns, public listening sessions, and even QR-coded posters.
We invite you to explore our full report and reflect on the incredible stories and collaborations that made 2024 so impactful. You’ll find examples of how our unified approach—blending journalism, engagement, and education— elevates the field and creates lasting change.
Thank you for being a part of this journey. Your support fuels our mission, and we’re excited to continue working together to strengthen the journalism ecosystem for future generations.
With gratitude and warm regards,
LISA GIBBS, CEO & PRESIDENT
Richard W. Moore, ChairMAN of the Board
In 2024...
We supported
203 projects
288 journalists
in 102 countries
resulting in
946 stories
We held
701 events
reaching 108,000+ people
in 26 countries
We created
57 education resources
directly engaging 54,496+ students & teachers
We reached
2.6 million visits on our website
6 million people on social media
FOCUS AREA
Information & Artificial Intelligence
Image courtesy of TBIJ. 2024.
Image courtesy of TBIJ. 2024.
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.
Image courtesy of TBIJ. 2024.
INFORMATION & AI JOURNALISM
For The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Niamh McIntyre exposed how surveillance companies sanctioned for their role in detaining protesters and activists in Russia recruited gig workers around the world to train their facial recognition systems. After the story ran, the U.S. government imposed new trade restrictions on one of the companies featured in the reporting.
Illustration by Joseph Luigi Almuena/PCIJ. Philippines. 2024.
INFORMATION & AI JOURNALISM
The car-hailing app Grab was supposed to be an alternative for people dealing with the Philippines' famously congested traffic. But as AI Accountability Fellow Karol Ilagan revealed, Grab’s opaque algorithm doesn’t work as advertised—surge fees are always present and customers often face lengthy wait times. In December 2024, Senator of the Philippines Raffy Tulfo initiated a probe on surge fees, including those Grab applies.
“the empty, emotionless statement
you spout forth from an algorithm
because numbers and letters can’t become empathy
and you will be constantly rejected by those who feel because we all know that you are incapable of it”
"i don't believe you" by Piper Sobel
third-place winner, Information and Artificial Intelligence category,
annual student poetry contest
FOCUS ON
In its first eight months, the AI Spotlight Series training programs reached 1,666 journalists in 112 countries, quickly surpassing its initial goal of training 1,000 journalists. The series, designed by leading AI journalist Karen Hao, aims to build a movement of journalists who have the skills and the confidence to interrogate AI systems, their makers, and their impacts on communities around the world. The curriculum will be open sourced in 2025.
Image by Madeleine Ngeunga. 2024.
“This is an excellent course that has exposed me to crucially important information and strategies for covering AI. It has completely changed how I think about AI and it'll immensely help improve my reporting and writing approach.”
AI Spotlight "Reporting on AI Intensive" attendee
Image courtesy of Ai Kenya. Kenya, 2024.
INFORMATION & AI ENGAGEMENT
In Indonesia, academics, driver unions, government representatives, industry players, and civil society organizations came together to discuss structural inequities in ride-hailing platforms uncovered in Karol Ilagan’s reporting, in an effort to generate policy recommendations for a fairer and more transparent gig economy. In Kenya, the ”Redefining AI Labor” town hall brought together data workers, business process outsourcing representatives, legal minds, AI engineers, and mental health professionals.
Image courtesy of Sushmita Jaya Mukherjee. 2024.
INFORMATION & AI ENGAGEMENT
We established an AI Teacher Advisory Council in response to educator feedback about engagement with journalism about AI in the classroom. The 14 Council members utilized Pulitzer Center-supported AI reporting to develop AI Classroom Toolkits implemented with 445 of their own students and presented in a public webinar.
Image courtesy of Mikaela Schmitt. 2024.
INFORMATION & AI ENGAGEMENT
During the Electoral Frontiers webinar series, AI Accountability Fellows and experts discussed the rapidly evolving technology’s effect on mis- and disinformation and democratic processes. The panel examined far-reaching, and often unforeseen, implications of curatorial algorithms, large language models, and deepfakes.
“We at the National Consumer Protection Agency now understand the concept of the black box [in an AI algorithm] that might occur in price setting on ride-hailing apps in Indonesia. Moving forward, we will review further studies, including their implications for the welfare of ride-hailing apps’ driver partners. Thank you for today's session and the sharing by Pulitzer Center Journalist about the impact of algorithms in delivery apps in the Philippines.”
Representative, National Consumer Protection Agency of Indonesia and participant in the Pulitzer Center AI Focus Group
FOCUS AREA
Global Health
Image by Irina Werning. Argentina.
Image by Irina Werning. Argentina.
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.
Image by Sibtain Hyder/The Caravan. India.
GLOBAL HEALTH JOURNALISM
A Caravan magazine investigation and in-depth video documentary revealed how massive quarrying industries in India are exposing impoverished workers to dangerous conditions, causing a fatal diagnosis of silicosis, a lung disease caused by inhaling particles of active silica dust, or silicon dioxide. The powerful blend of reporting in remote villages and digging for documents has energized a movement to demand protections and support for workers.
Image by Jacob Byk/Military.com. United States, 2024.
GLOBAL HEALTH JOURNALISM
With support from the Pulitzer Center, Military.com reporters investigated a long history of toxic exposure affecting U.S. Air Force missileers, sentries of nuclear warheads, and bunker maintenance crews. Stories revealed decades-old reports warning of health risks. The project boosted a veterans aid movement and led the Air Force to take steps to better protect and support cancer-stricken veterans and families.
“when rows of electrical boxes decompose into chains of symmetrical coffins,
when single-file lines of veins are poisoned with the residues of negligence,
how many more dust-covered veterans will need to devolve into ash?”
"exposure / exposé / exposed" by Max Lee
first-place winner, Global Health category
annual student poetry contest
FOCUS ON
The first story published by our inaugural cohort of StoryReach U.S. Fellows is already making waves with Louisiana state officials. Louisiana-based Fellow Lorena O'Neil broke a story about the potential maternal health threats of a new state law that classifies two vital pregnancy care drugs as controlled dangerous substances. Her articles were cited multiple times in a lawsuit filed against Louisiana over the new controlled substances law this past November.
Image by Hannah Berk. United States, 2024.
GLOBAL HEALTH ENGAGEMENT
Image by Elliott Adams. United States, 2024.
GLOBAL HEALTH ENGAGEMENT
Image courtesy of AAAS. United States, 2024.
GLOBAL HEALTH ENGAGEMENT
“This program had a clear impact on my students by helping them connect global issues of plastic pollution and its health effects to their local context in Kaʻū. It engaged students in the power of storytelling to make complex issues like environmental justice and public health more relevant while also inspiring them to take action within their community.”
Beatriz Ramos Jimenez,
high school educator in Naalehu, Hawaii, and fall 2024 Teacher Fellow
FOCUS AREA
Climate &
Environment
Image by Adam Ferguson. Fiji.
Image by Adam Ferguson. Fiji.
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.
Image courtesy of The Africa Report.
CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT JOURNALISM
Rainforest Investigations Network Fellow Musinguzi Blanshe exposed the never-before-seen workings of the timber trafficking scheme from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Uganda. Following the publication, the Ugandan Ministry of the Environment promised to tighten border controls and scrutinize the country´s timber trade.
Image by Carl Smith/ABC. Micronesia.
CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT JOURNALISM
Carl Smith’s project on the Ulithi atoll in Micronesia takes listeners to the tropical island of Yap, one of the most remote places in the world. His 30-minute radio piece uncovers how a community is using modern science and traditional knowledge to grapple with existential climate threats.
Image courtesy of Azneal Ishak/Malaysiakini. Malaysia.
CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT JOURNALISM
In a multimedia report, our partners at Malaysiakini showed how mining activity is leaving a trail of destruction among the Orang Asli community near Gua Musang, Malaysia. The extraction of iron ore not only contaminates the rivers in the Kelantan region, it also poisons the population. Following the publication of the report, the government ordered the Aqua Orion Sdn Bhd mining company to cease operations.
“We dig the tip of our spear into our soil
Piercing their dreams of oil”
"Whispered by the Wind" by Violet Sandridge
Finalist, Climate and Environment category
annual student poetry contest
FOCUS ON
Shaping Climate Dialogues at COP29
The Pulitzer Center brought together 40 key stakeholders, including journalists, media outlets, scientists, multilateral institutions, and grassroots movements, at the United Nations’ annual climate conference (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan to explore the intersection of climate change and environmental justice. As part of COP29, our panel discussion on "Unpacking Power: The Role of Investigative Climate Reporting and Audience Engagement" drew participants from state institutions, and journalism and communications sectors.
Image courtesy of Bruna Wagner. Brazil, 2024.
CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT ENGAGEMENT
A diverse group of 45 academics, journalists, decision-makers, and social and environmental leaders convened at the Interconnected Workshop in Belém, Brazil, to discuss pressing issues at the intersections of climate change, the ocean, rainforest, and governance across the region, reflecting on the global context ahead of COP30.
Image by Eric Selemani. DRC, 2024.
CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT ENGAGEMENT
A photo exhibition at the Democratic Republic of the Congo National Museum immersed young people in climate issues, featuring discussions that highlighted sustainable solutions and the role of youth in environmental governance. Our EcoCulture radio competition and workshops also reached over 7,000 students across 16 schools, using journalism to connect climate change with students’ lives and amplify their voices through interactive radio broadcasts.
Image by Grace Jensen. United States, 2024.
CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT ENGAGEMENT
More than 300 people packed a Washington, D.C., theater for the Pulitzer Center’s 2024 program at the D.C. Environmental Film Festival, one of the world’s largest environmental film festivals. Followed by a discussion with filmmakers, the screening of five documentaries illustrated how a healthy ocean is vital to addressing the triple planetary crisis of climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss.
“The themes explored by these journalists have greatly enlightened us and have encouraged us to get involved and take an interest in issues related to the environment."
Detyna, a student at the Faculty Institute of Information and Communication Sciences (IFASIC) in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
FOCUS AREA
Human Rights
Image by Shefali Rafiq. India.
Image by Shefali Rafiq. India.
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.
Image by Ngone Ndiaye. Senegal.
HUMAN RIGHTS JOURNALISM
Ngone Ndiaye and Isabella Zerpa’s investigation for the Spanish outlet Público documented flagrant procedural flaws in the Canary Islands’ prosecution of African migrants who are detained trying to reach European shores. Undue police pressure, witness absenteeism, and sentencing disparities raise questions about the use of detention as a coercive tool in Spain's fight against irregular migration.
Image by Valente Rosas/El Universal. Panama.
HUMAN RIGHTS JOURNALISM
Mexican reporters at El Universal exposed how a push to build a massive “Panama Canal” alternative transportation route through Indigenous lands has violated laws mandating Indigenous communities' consent. Reporters revealed false signatures on approval documents, targeted arrests, and other bullying tactics. Better housing was provided to communities as a result, and communities are using the story to advocate for their rights.
Image courtesy of Andrea Kalin. United States, 2024.
HUMAN RIGHTS JOURNALISM
In her documentary for The New Yorker, grantee Andrea Kalin tells the story of Heather Shaner, a public defender in the District of Columbia representing January 6 rioters. In an age of growing polarization, the bonds of trust that develop between Shaner and her clients offer a lesson on how people from opposite ends of the political spectrum can find their common humanity.
FOCUS ON
40+ Reporting Fellows from our Campus Consortium partner institutions attended the three-day Washington Weekend in October to present their reporting projects, network with professional journalists, and tour the nation’s capital. Reporting Fellows learned from each other’s work, guest speakers, and a panel on navigating information, misinformation, and disinformation in political campaigns.
“Collaborating with the Pulitzer Center and attending Washington Weekend every year are highlights of my professional career. The reporting Fellows not only do incredible and interesting reporting, but they also give me hope for the future of journalism and our country.”
Michelle Stonis
Campus Consortium partner from Glendale Community College
“You love our decorations,
papel picado es lo que les agraden, it hangs from the ceiling
but my people would rather hang our protest signs.”
"Somos Gente" by Angelina Soto Pavia
Finalist, Human Rights category
annual student poetry contest
Image by Lucille Crelli. Untied States, 2024.
HUMAN RIGHTS ENGAGEMENT
This year's student contests, Fighting Words and Local Letters for Global Change, received a record-breaking 2,566 entries from 23 countries, 36 states, and D.C., written in response to Pulitzer Center stories. Almost all of the participating teachers, 95%, reported that their students gained a deeper understanding of global issues.
Image by Tom O'Connor. United States, 2024.
HUMAN RIGHTS ENGAGEMENT
Over 100 journalism graduate students joined together to focus on mental well-being in the United States. The day-long workshop at Northwestern Medill included Dart Center training, examples of trauma-informed storytelling by grantee Justin Maxon, and discussions about reporting on mental well-being.
HUMAN RIGHTS ENGAGEMENT
We commemorated the fifth anniversary of The 1619 Project with a report documenting the five-year impact of our 1619 Education Initiatives and highlighting the critical demand educators still have for this work. We expanded that impact through a grant initiative and webinar series that together reached over 11,500 students, teachers, and community members.
“We built empathy and critical thinking around Black history … this program built a foundation for community healing. I’m so grateful to 1619 and the Pulitzer Center.”
Jordan Campbell, Gateway Regional Arts Center/The Affrilachia Project
FOCUS AREA
Peace & Conflict
Image by Marcos Quinones. United States, 2024.
Image by Marcos Quinones. United States, 2024.
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.
Image by Arthur Larie. Sudan.
PEACE & CONFLICT JOURNALISM
With estimates as high as 150,000 dead and 8 million displaced, the civil war in Sudan is the worst humanitarian crisis of our time. It is also one of the least documented. Grantees Arthur Larie and Bastien Massa, reporting for Le Figaro and Le Temps in France and NRC in the Netherlands, were among the few who made their way to the region to bear journalistic witness to the unfolding catastrophe.
Illustration by Emiliano Ponzi/The New Yorker.
PEACE & CONFLICT JOURNALISM
On November 19, 2005, after a roadside bomb in Haditha, Iraq, killed a U.S. Marine, fellow Marines retaliated by executing 24 civilians who had no connection to the bombing. It was a war crime, plain and simple. Yet no Marine went to prison. Madeleine Baran’s podcast series for The New Yorker takes listeners deep inside a flawed military justice system. Members of Congress recently asked the Department of Defense to address the lack of accountability.
Image by Sahiba Chawdhary. India, 2022.
PEACE & CONFLICT JOURNALISM
Four Reporting Fellow alums were recognized with national awards and film festival acceptances in 2024 for their coverage of peace and conflict issues around the world.
- UW-Madison Fellow Audrey Thibert was named an SPJ Mark of Excellence Award finalist for her coverage of African migrants in Tunisia.
- Columbia Journalism Fellows Bebei Liu and Mayara Teixiera premiered their film about a couple who immigrated to the U.S. from Venezuela, After Landing, at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Montana.
- Northwestern Medill Fellow Ankita M. Kumar was accepted into eight film festivals for her Pulitzer Center film Far From Home, the first-ever documentary about Afghan refugees in India.
“One full moon we will place our
palms on the wolves’ foreheads
and say, gently, the bush is for the
animals, not for the people”
"the bush is for the animals, not for the people" by Lily Scheckner
First-place winner, Peace and Conflict category
annual student poetry contest
IMPACT
Image courtesy of The Intercept.
A 2018 drone attack by the U.S. military in Somalia killed innocent civilians, including a mother and her 4-year-old child—yet there has been no explanation, apology, or compensation to the victims’ families. Grantee Nick Turse’s investigation of the incident for The Intercept prompted a demand from more than two dozen human rights organizations for the Pentagon to comply with its stated policy and make amends to the survivors.
Image by Alessandro Cosmelli. Russia, 2023.
PEACE & CONFLICT ENGAGEMENT
Journalist Marzio Mian and photographer Alessandro Cosmelli followed the Volga river to capture Russian history and identity against the backdrop of the invasion of Ukraine. They shared their Volga Blues project with students on three campuses, experts at Northwestern University’s Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, and local community members at the Bronx Documentary Center.
Image by Mikaela Schmitt. United States, 2024.
PEACE & CONFLICT ENGAGEMENT
As the war on Ukraine entered its second year, Pulitzer Center webinar panelists discussed strategies sustaining critical coverage, and Human Rights Watch researchers joined grantees to share how they conduct their work without physical access to regions devastated by the war, addressing an audience of leaders and researchers.
“For years, the Department of Defense has glossed over alleged war crimes committed by the U.S. military and failed to maintain records of these atrocities—it’s horrific and erodes the trust of the American people. We have a moral and strategic duty to protect civilians, and there must be real accountability when we fail.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, in a statement to the In the Dark team.
Awards & Recognition
Image by Gabe Allen. United States, 2024.
Image by Gabe Allen. United States, 2024.
In 2024, reporting supported by the Pulitzer Center received more than 42 awards and citations across all five focus areas.
Pulitzer Center Fellow, Grantees Awarded for Excellence in Science Communications
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine announced the 24 winners of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications, given in partnership with Schmidt Sciences. Among the winners were two Pulitzer Center grantees and a current Ocean Reporting Network Fellow.
Collaboration, Innovation Define Pulitzer Center OJA Winners
Three Pulitzer Center-supported projects are winners of the 2024 Online Journalism Awards (OJA), given by the Online News Association (ONA). The Online Journalism Awards honor excellence in digital journalism. Since publication, the project has inspired younger students to write letters to their local representatives through the Pulitzer Center’s Local Letters for Global Change contest.
Grantee Jennifer Adler Wins Earth Photo Award
Grantee Jennifer Adler won the climate category of the 2024 Earth Photo Awards for her photos of scientist Roxane Boonstra inspecting corals in a Florida nursery, part of Adler’s Pulitzer Center project The Uncertain Future of America’s Most Iconic Coral Reef with Benji Jones for Vox. The Earth Photo Awards recognize photographers and filmmakers whose images tell compelling stories about our planet.
Pulitzer Center Grantees Win One World Media Awards
Pulitzer Center-supported journalists were honored at the 2024 One World Media Awards on June 19 in London. The One World Media Awards celebrate the best journalism from the Global South. This year’s winners were chosen from over 500 entries from 117 countries, according to the organization’s website. The Pulitzer Center was also proud to announce a new partnership with the Financial Times.
Pulitzer Center Grantees Win SOPA Awards
The Pulitzer Center is proud to announce that multiple of its supported stories have won prestigious awards at the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Awards for Editorial Excellence. These awards celebrate the highest standards in journalism across the Asia-Pacific region. Our grantees have been recognized for their outstanding contributions to investigative reporting, photography, and bahasa Indonesia news reporting.
Former Reporting Fellows Win Overseas Press Club Foundation Awards
Two former Reporting Fellows, Catherine Cartier and Audrey Thibert, won 2024 Overseas Press Club Foundation Scholar Awards. The award is given to young journalists to gain experience in overseas reporting, either through a scholarship or a fellowship in the foreign bureaus of The Associated Press, Reuters, or The Wall Street Journal, among others. They both hope to return to the Middle East and North Africa region, where they both reported as Fellows.
The 1619 Project Docuseries Wins an Emmy
The 1619 Project docuseries on Hulu took home an Emmy for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series at the 75th Creative Arts Emmy Awards. The Pulitzer Center is the education partner for The 1619 Project and produced a set of viewing guides for the docuseries. The 1619 Project premiered on Hulu last year as a documentary series expanding on The 1619 Project initiative created by Hannah-Jones.
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Image by Daniel Vasta. Panama, 2024.
Image by Daniel Vasta. Panama, 2024.
In the past four years since publishing our diversity, equity, and inclusion mission statement and commitments, we have expanded the diversity of the journalists we support, strengthened diversity and inclusion for our partners and staff, and committed to ongoing evaluation of our efforts. In 2024, our efforts centered around intentional outreach and investment in accessibility tools that expanded diversity and strengthened inclusion for our audiences and staff.
Image courtesy of Vijitra Duangdee. Indonesia, 2024.
Integration of translation tools made journalism grant applications available in four languages, supported 38 multilingual social media collaborations with news outlet partners, helped us publish stories in both original languages and English summaries, and facilitated multilingual surveys, promotional materials, and event subtitles for outreach efforts such as the AI Spotlight Series and Impact Seed Fund outreach grants.
Image by Daniel Vasta. United States, 2024.
Grant partnerships and participation in 12+ journalism conferences for workshops, panels, and pitch sessions supported increased diversity among our grant recipients. For the second time since launching our DEI statement in 2020, over 50% of journalism grant recipients self-identified as a race/ethnicity other than white and nearly 50% self-identified as female or nonbinary.
Image courtesy of Vijitra Duangdee. Indonesia, 2024.
Dozens of webinars, virtual conferences, and in-person workshops and screenings centered historically underrepresented voices at the forefront of discussions about their own communities. Nearly 50% 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 Daniel Vasta. Panama, 2024.
Feedback we received from biannual engagement surveys to our over 60 staff members in 15 countries led to clarified policies for digital communication, a salary audit to better align our compensation policies with the global nonprofit sector, and 30+ staff engagement and training activities.
“It is a small thing, but I did appreciate much of the workshop being led by women of color—it breaks down the unconscious barrier some of us have to see us doing this type of reporting. It is especially encouraging to see the stories showcased as they impact marginalized communities.”
attendee of an AI Spotlight Series training
Financials
Image by Florence Goupil/The Washington Post. Peru.
Image by Florence Goupil/The Washington Post. Peru.
In 2024, the Pulitzer Center had an operating revenue of $10.85 million.
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Thank you to our donors
Image by Grace Jensen. United States, 2024.
Image by Grace Jensen. United States, 2024.
Support for the Pulitzer Center this year came from Arnold Ventures, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Clinton Family Foundation, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Facebook Journalism Project, Ford Foundation, Fore River Foundation, Golden Globe Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Henry L. Kimelman Family Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 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, Open Society Foundations, Poklon Foundation, The IV Fund, Trellis Charitable Fund, Walton Family Foundation, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund, and our Campus Consortium partner schools.
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 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.
