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The Pulitzer Center is seeking ambitious reporting proposals from freelance and staff journalists from around the world who wish to report on vital ocean and fisheries issues and are in need of support for their reporting projects. How to Apply Apply Now The Pulitzer Center, a nonprofit organization

Visual storytelling with depth and nuance is core to the Pulitzer Center mission to raise awareness of underreported global issues, bring attention to urgent stories, and hold those in power to account. Our grants and fellowships for freelance and staff journalists aim to cultivate diverse

From climate change to social justice, Pulitzer Center journalism cuts to the core of the world’s biggest challenges. Explore our focus areas to read the reporting and discover related events, education resources, and more. FOCUS AREA Climate and Environment Our journalism investigates how climate

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

By Raina Zrinko 10th grade, Spotswood High School, NJ With lines from “Ford's Electric Pickup Is Built From Metal That's Damaging the Amazon” by Jessica Brice and Sheridan Prasso, a Pulitzer Center reporting project My America has shifted Since I woke up one night The rose-color faded And the oil

By Fiona Jin 10th grade, Adlai E. Stevenson High School, IL With lines from "A World Without Men" by Anna Sussman, a Pulitzer Center reporting project I have rinsed your name from my mouth. Four months in front of a dirty mirror is enough to realize my vocabulary of pain, how I learned how to smile

By Ivi Hua 10th grade, Mead High School, WA With lines from "Colonias and the American Dream Are One and the Same for Residents" by Carolina Cuellar, a Pulitzer Center reporting project i. American, call me your garden of prosperity. this fickle paradise, a harvested blight. these men, lulled into

By Archer Bouslog 12th grade, Theodore Roosevelt High School, IA With lines from “For Ghana’s Only Openly Transgender Musician, ‘Every Day Is Dangerous’” by Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, a Pulitzer Center reporting project she could have bloomed much earlier yet the frost of hatred kept her petals crumpled

By Mackenzie Duan 11th grade, Dougherty Valley High School, CA With lines from "Fallen Forest: Cambodia’s Political Reforestation Unlikely To Survive" by Anton Delgado, a Pulitzer Center reporting project In August, bulldozers cleared Phnom Tamao Forest, the land pockmarked with bushes, uneven as

By Mikail Yasir 9th grade, New Tech High @ Coppell, TX With lines from "Cost of a KitKat: Big Brands Leave Sugar Farmers at the Mercy of Climate Extremes" by Arvind Shukla, Gurman Bhatia, Isabelle Gerretsen, Mayank Aggarwal, and Meenal Upreti, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Nestlé World's

By Sophia Tranquillo 10th grade, Whetstone High School, OH With lines from "‘The Talk:’ These Teens From Rural Utah Are Filling ‘The Gaps’ in Sex Ed" by Becky Jacobs and Jesse Ryan, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Content warning: This poem contains themes of sexual assault. Skin: Noun. A thin

By Vivian Zhu 11th grade, Adlai E. Stevenson High School, IL Second place contest winner With lines from "The Blue That Enchanted the World" by Caroline Gutman and Latria Graham, a Pulitzer Center reporting project I. Lowcountry, 1750 Among the black gum trees, live oaks, & scrub brush, crop rows

By Casey Costello 6th grade, F.A. Day Middle School, MA With lines from “Louisiana’s Coastline is Crumbling. These Tribes Know How to Save It” by Lorena O’Neil and Akasha Rabut, a Pulitzer Center reporting project In a place where the waves are always crashing and the wind is always blowing and the

By Mariana Bartolo Ortiz 10th grade, Woodburn High School, OR First place contest winner With lines from "Memory and Protest of Femicide in Juárez" by Erika Schultz, Corinne Chin, Claudia Castro Luna, Vianna Davila, and Norma Ledezma Ortega, a Pulitzer Center webinar i. guardian angel ángel de la

By Elena Stevens 11th grade, Piedmont High School, CA With lines from “Criminal Justice or Criminal Injustice? The Power of Language” by Meera Santhanam, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Every individual is defined, labeled External opinions are jars with lids Trapping, pinning We are slammed

By Asa T. B. 6th grade, OH With lines from ”‘It’s Not for the Faint-Hearted’: The Story of India’s Intrepid Women Seaweed Divers” by Kamala Thiagarajan, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Women sit on a warm, sandy shore With turquoise waters stretching as far as the eye can see Just as they have

By Heona Liu 8th grader, Bigelow Middle School, MA With lines from “In Lebanon, Parents Abandoning Their Children in Orphanages" by Wendell Steavenson, a Pulitzer Center reporting project The rich Plummet to the poor, Down down down A sinking ship. So those who have assisted Are in need of

By Francisco Sarmiento-Fernandez 7th grade, Greene Street Friends School, PA Honorable mention With lines from “Until We Are Gone” by Sofia Aldinio, a Pulitzer Center reporting project *Translated by Hannah Berk. Click here to read this poem in the original Spanish. Do you remember the forest palms