Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
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The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, is an American media organization established in 2006, that sponsors independent reporting that media organizations are increasingly less willing to undertake on their own. The Center's goal is to raise the standard of coverage of global affairs, and to do so in a way that engages both the broad public and government policy-makers. The organization is based in Washington, DC
The Pulitzer Center is an initiative, in keeping with its sponsorship by a family whose name for more than a century has been a watchword for journalistic integrity and courage. The center is inspired by the third Joseph Pulitzer who became editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch a half century ago. His approach is summed up in the quotation "Not only will we report the day's news," he said, "but we will illuminate dark places and, with a deep sense of responsibility, interpret these troubled times." The Pulitzer Center is driven by that same mission and deep sense of responsibility.
The Pulitzer Center functions as an independent division of the World Security Institute, itself a leader in the sponsorship of independent journalism and scholarship.
The Center welcomes proposals for enterprising reporting projects throughout the world, with an emphasis on issues that have gone unreported, under-reported or mis-reported in the mainstream American media. The Center's director is Jon Sawyer.
[edit] Trustees
- Emily Rauh Pulitzer, Chair. Chair and founder of The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis.
- David E. Moore, member of the board of advisors at the World Security Institute and former board member of Pulitzer, Inc.
- William Bush, attorney, Fulbright & Jaworski. Partner-in-charge, New York.
[edit] Advisory Council
- Bill Berkeley, adjunct professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. Author of The Graves Are Not Yet Filled: Race, Tribe and Power in the Heart of Africa. Contributor to such publications as The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and The Washington Post.
- John Carroll, Knight Visiting Lecturer at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Former editor, Los Angeles Times.
- William Freivogel, university professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale's Paul Simon Public Policy Institute. Former Washington correspondent and deputy editorial page editor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
- Charlayne Hunter-Gault, journalist, currently based in South Africa and reporting for National Public Radio. Formerly a correspondent for CNN, PBS NewsHour, and The New York Times.
- Geneva Overholser, Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting at the University of Missouri. Former ombudsman, The Washington Post. Former editor, Des Moines Register.
