I don’t know how long it will take us in Nigeria to understand that bad journalism is worse than bad government. But that viral video of a morning show encounter between General IBM Haruna and two Arise TV presenters got me thinking, again, about our peculiar form of political journalism and its consequences. I will return […]
Our Q1: 70 Projects, 87 Journalists, 46 Countries. The Pulitzer Center's Q1 2022 Highlights
With many new initiatives under way, we knew the first quarter of 2022 would be hectic. What we did not know was that a brutal war would be raging in Europe and that it would claim thousands of lives, including that of one of our former grantees, filmmaker Brent Renaud.
The Pulitzer Center has focused on peace and conflict since its earliest days, including my own reporting from Darfur in 2006, our very first project. Our interest has always been to dig beneath the surface of the headlines, helping to understand the drivers of conflict and exploring the pathways to peace. Some of our best projects over the years are ones that drew attention to simmering conflicts before they erupted, as was the case with James Verini and Paolo Pellegrin's deeply reported work from the Donbas region of Ukraine in late 2021.
Peace and conflict cuts across nearly all of the work we support from migration