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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