Pulitzer Center Update November 7, 2017
This Week: The Iowan Bridging the Gap between Trump and Xi
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Iowa in the Heart of China
At the center of the relationship between the world's two main superpowers are a small agricultural...
Kyle Munson and Kelsey Kremer
As President Trump makes his first official visit to China, The Des Moines Register launches a series of stories on the growing ties between the communist superpower and the American state of Iowa. Can U.S. ambassador and former Iowa governor Terry Branstad, who backed Trump for the presidency in 2016 and got tapped to be his Beijing envoy, bring China more in line with U.S. interests? Though Branstad speaks no Chinese, he’s not without credentials: As governor, he got to know Xi Jinping long before Xi became the most powerful Chinese leader in decades.
This week exemplified the Pulitzer Center’s extraordinary reach —in subject matter and distribution. Among the stories we supported: videos for AJ+ about Rohingya families fleeing ethnic cleansing in Myanmar; a story in Elle on the challenges faced by a group of female surfers in Bangladesh; articles in the Los Angeles Times about Pakistan’s troubled tribal areas; a NewsHour segment from China on rural children growing up without their parents; a Science story on Iran’s nuclear program; an Atlantic article on Germany’s battles with Facebook; and a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story about using math to predict disease outbreaks in Africa.
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