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Pulitzer Center Update December 29, 2017

With Your Help We Can Change the World

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Image by Zach Fannin. Russia, 2017.
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PBS NewsHour goes inside Russia for a series that explores everything from the bilateral...

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Dear Friends,

An Associated Press exposé of rape and massacre in the Rohingya villages of Myanmar. A Los Angeles Times report on China's growing influence across Africa. A six-part series for PBS NewsHour on Putin's RussiaThe New Yorker's inside look at life in Pyongyang. A yearlong multimedia project with TIME, tracking the lives of three Syrian refugee families in Europe.

These stories are a reminder of the astonishing range of work made possible with Pulitzer Center support in 2017—and a reminder, also, that beyond the circus of current American politics there is a world in flux, a world that we ignore at our peril.

New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof noted this month that his columns on President Donald J. Trump averaged twice the readership online as those on foreign affairs—proof that "Trump sells," he wrote, "and overseas news doesn't."

That truth doesn't make overseas news less important. It does mean we have to think harder, about how to reach the broadest possible audiences on the issues that affect us all.

For the Pulitzer Center that means making our reporting as compelling as we can, through brilliant storytelling, photography, and videography. But it also means finding audiences where they are—funding projects on China with The Des Moines Register, for example, or with The Texas Tribune (and ProPublica) on the botched management of a 700-mile fence that is the precursor of Trump's "beautiful wall."

Just as important are the hundreds of schools and universities that use Pulitzer journalism as the launch point for discussion and debate, engaging students on the trends and policies that will determine their future.

In 2017 Pulitzer Center journalists participated in more than 245 events at 45 universities and colleges. We sent 37 students to report from 27 countries. We reached 80,000 secondary and middle school students in person—and tens of thousands more through online curricular resources that are freely available to educators everywhere.

It's your support that makes this possible. Won't you join us today? Together we can change the world.

Sincerely,

Jon Sawyer

Executive Director

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In this November 19 photo, a Rohingya Muslim child runs on a mud track between tents at Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh. Image by Maye-e Wong. Bangladesh, 2017. 
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"All I have left are my words," the Rohingya Muslim refugee said. The AP documents systematic gang...

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Taimaa Abazli, 24, holds her new baby Heln in their tent at the Karamalis camp in Thessaloniki. Image by Lynsey Addario for TIME. Greece, 2016.
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Following the lives of four Syrian refugee mothers and their babies from the day these women gave...

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Lieutenant Colonel Pang Myong Jin, of the Korean People's Army, inside the Demilitarized Zone in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Image by Evan Osnos. North Korea, 2017.
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Three days after Donald Trump tweeted that the U.S. is "locked and loaded" in its nuclear standoff...

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Azindo Nchegir is a subsistence farmer, and also a local agent for Chinese gambling interests. Image by Noah Fowler. Ghana, 2017.
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Across Africa, the era of U.S. and European hegemony is ending. As China fills the gap, the...

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