A multitiered approach to focusing attention on the impact of global issues on Chicagoans.

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting (Pulitzer Center) will continue its news literacy work by partnering with journalists and community media outlets and sponsoring events on the global issues reported by these media and journalists.  In this way, Pulitzer Center expects to highlight the local impact of global issues.

About The Pulitzer Center

Founded in 2006, The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is an innovative award-winning nonprofit journalism organization dedicated to supporting the independent international journalism that U.S. media organizations are increasingly less able to undertake. The Center focuses on under-reported topics, promoting high-quality international reporting and creating platforms that reach broad and diverse audiences.

Impact

• Free Spirit Media workshop held annually for 25 Chicago youth

• Students leave secondary school with…

  1. A strong sense of what it means to be a smart news consumer, asking thoughtful, focused questions

  2. Heightened sense of global awareness

  3. Understanding of the value of global journalism in promoting a healthy democracy

  4. Awareness of local manifestation of global problems

  5. Awareness of the role of journalism in bringing these issues to public attention

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