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Awards/Recognition
Amid the changing media landscape, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is
a nimble, award-winning journalism organization with an entrepreneurial spirit.
The Pulitzer Center is widely recognized for its high caliber journalism, its
full-cycle multimedia model and its engaging, cutting-edge educational
initiatives. The Pulitzer Center is built on principles of collaboration over
competition. It achieves significant impact by building partnerships, leveraging
resources, embracing innovative technologies, and engaging citizens at multiple
entry points to facilitate informed dialogue on systemic global issues.
Among the Pulitzer Center’s notable achievements:
•An Emmy
in 2009 for new approaches to news and documentary programming, in the arts,
lifestyle and culture category, for LiveHopeLove.com
• People’s Voice Award Winner in Art category, Official Nominee in two
categories (Art and Best Use of Photography), Official Honoree in Best Visual
Design – Aesthetic in the 2009 Webby
Awards competition (for HOPE)
•Honorable Mention in the 2008 Knight-Batten Innovations in Journalism Awards
(for HOPE: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica and its interactive site, www.livehopelove.com)
See related reporting on HIV in Jamaica at Hope: Living
and Loving with HIV in Jamaica.
•Winner of the National Press Foundation's 2009 Excellence in Online Journalism Award
•Finalist in the Online News
Association's 2009 Online Journalism Awards, in the category of
Multimedia Feature Presentation (small site), for the Women.Children.Crisis
Pulitzer Gateway
•Asia
Society’s 2008 Goldman Sachs Foundation Prize for Excellence in
International Education for best use of media/technology
See the related
Pulitzer
Gateway.
• The Pulitzer Center produced Media on the
Move for the Knight
Citizen News Network to highlight our unique model in transforming
journalism and educational outreach
• Multiple awards for Michael Kavanagh and his reporting on DRC, including a
2009 Robert F.
Kennedy Journalism Award for best international reporting on
television (awarded to Michael
Kavanagh and to the public television program Worldfocus for Michael's reporting on
rape as
a weapon of war in the eastern Democratic Republic of the
Congo); a News and Documentary Emmy
nomination in the "Best story in a regularly scheduled newscast"
category for Michael and Worldfocus, which aired Michael's
"War in Congo;" and an Edward R. Murrow
Award from the Radio-Television News Directors
Association for Michael's DRC reporting on World Vision
Report
See all of Michael's related reporting from the
Congo at his project page The Roots
of Ethnic Conflict in Eastern DRC.
• Excellence in
Journalism Award in the feature writing category from the Society
for Professional Journalists for Meredith May's "Saving Nepal's
Indentured Girls"
See all of Meredith's related reporting
from Nepal at her project page Nepal:
Olga's Girls.
• Multiple awards for Loretta
Tofani's Pulitzer Center project, published November 2007 in the
Salt Lake City Tribune on health and
safety risks in Chinese factories, the Sigma Delta Chi
award for best investigative reporting, the Gold Medal from
Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Michael
Kelly Award, a finalist for Harvard University’s Goldsmith
Prize, and a "special citation" as a finalist for the Daniel
Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative
Reporting.
•Finalist in the 2008-2009 We Media Game Changers Awards
Recent stories resulting from Pulitzer
Center travel grants.
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