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Global Issues/Campus Consortium
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is a non-profit leader in sponsoring coverage of under-reported global issues. It has a proven record in placing its projects in major media outlets and extending the reach of these projects through innovative marketing, the Global Gateway educational outreach program, and the use of cutting-edge internet platforms.
The Pulitzer Gateways are the online educational portals that bring together the reporting in an easy to navigate format for use by students and faculty. They offer opportunities for students to connect with the journalists and their peers about global issues via the web. Through the Gateways, students can dig deep into the reporting, discuss it online and share their own stories through user-generated uploads of video and commentary, expanding a global conversation on under-reported international issues. Go directly to the latest Pulitzer Gateways.
The Campus Consortium is a Pulitzer Center initiative aimed at enlisting college and university support to bring these resources – and the journalists behind these projects – to campuses across the country.
The challenge: Journalism today is in free fall, an industry pummeled by consolidation, slashed staff and a disappearing audience. The consequences are especially stark in the reduced resources, space and airtime devoted to international news, even as America is more vulnerable than ever to what happens across the globe.
The opportunity: Colleges and universities, key players in fostering debate and engagement on issues of importance, can help bring those issues to life through campus visits by journalists fresh from the field, student use of the Pulitzer Center’s rich array of online resources, and student interaction across participating campuses.
The cost: $10,000 per year for each Campus Consortium participant. Joint sponsorships welcomed.
What it covers: At least two campus visits per academic or calendar year by Pulitzer Center journalist/s inclusive of travel and honoraria for journalists. Single journalist or multiple journalists on related themes per visit. (The Women and Children in Crisis Gateway featured three journalists focusing on Iraq, Nepal and Congo, for example, while the Food Insecurity Gateway featured two to three journalists focusing on Africa, Asia and Central America.)
Mentoring of student liaisons for on-campus activities in addition to journalists' visits and direct support from Pulitzer Center staff to maximize campus use of Pulitzer’s reporting resources.
At each full Campus Consortium member school, at least one student travel fellowship of up to $2,000. The opportunity to work with the Pulitzer Center staff on an international reporting project, with the final product featured on the Pulitzer Center website.
Members:
Kent State University
Ohio University
Saint John’s University/Minnesota
Southern Illinois University/Carbondale
University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill
University of Wisconsin/River Falls
Washington University in St. Louis
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