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We will use these details to create your project page and bio on the Pulitzer Center website. The project page serves as the home for all of the reporting resulting from your reporting grant. For more information and tips, please read below.

Journalist grantees, please email paperwork@pulitzercenter.org with questions. Reporting fellows, please contact Libby Moeller at lmoeller@pulitzercenter.org with any questions.

Project Pages on the Pulitzer Center Website

Amazing storytelling is a hallmark of the Pulitzer Center, and the underreported stories the Center supports run the gamut — from COVID-19 to climate change and a host of other important issues around the world.

Project pages on the Pulitzer Center’s website help organize the reporting. Each project page contains related stories. All of the Pulitzer Center’s project pages can be found here.

Below are some tips to make Pulitzer project pages even better. Click here to see a well-written example on pulitzercenter.org that can serve as a guide.

Explain what the reporting project is all about: Good, descriptive writing that creates a picture in readers’ minds is always a good idea, but readers also need to know why a story is worth their time. When writing content for a project page, always include at least one paragraph that gives readers a reason for even clicking on the stories on the Center’s website. In journalism slang, it’s called a nut graf, which summarizes the essence of a story. For example:

“In the Coronavirus Child Brides stories, the Associated Press will look at how COVID-19 is leading to a rise in child marriages by families desperate to feed one less mouth. The stories will be set in Sierra Leone, with input from India, Bangladesh and the Middle East.”

Don’t be a spoiler: A good project page is like a good movie trailer. It draws readers in, but doesn’t give everything away.

Make the project title short, but make it say a lot: Many of the titles on the Pulitzer Center’s project pages use a “label headline” format, meaning that the title doesn't have verbs. For example, check out this one; it has just five words: “The Invisible Women of Ethiopia.” While the title is short, it gives a clear summary of the project and draws readers’ attention.

Keep the project page at a reasonable length: Again, think of the project page being like a movie trailer. Have you ever seen a two-hour trailer? Of course not. A trailer for a full-length film is one- to two minutes long, at most. A good length for project pages is 150-250 words.

Let’s continue to give Pulitzer Center-supported reporting the attention stories deserve. The project page is just one way to fulfill that goal.

Project ID (if you have been provided one)

Website Materials

All project pages are published AFTER the first piece publishes.

The title of the project for our website

A brief “teaser” of the project for our website in 200 characters or less.

An informative description of your reporting project for our website in 150-250 words. The summary should be written in the third person.

Horizontal image for project page If you don't have one right now, please email it to us later. Please note that we need it before the first piece publishes.

Vertical image for project page (optional)

Photography Rights

If Pulitzer Center funds help with the cost of photography and/or illustrations, then the Pulitzer Center has rights to republish the photographs accompanying the story. However, if the news media outlet is going to pay for the photographs separately, or if they are going to use a file photograph acquired through a service like Getty, Reuters, AFP, or AP, then it is likely we do not have permission.

Do you anticipate that the Pulitzer Center will have permission to republish all photos and illustrations included in the stories coming out of your reporting project? Please describe below.

If this changes in the future, inform us by reaching out to your Pulitzer Center editor and to publishing@pulitzercenter.org.

Journalist Grantee or Guest Contributor?

If Pulitzer Center funds helped cover the cost in any way toward a person’s reporting, photography, illustrations, data graphics, etc., then that person would be considered a Journalist Grantee. If Pulitzer Center funds went toward a newsroom/news media outlet/organization, then staffers would also be considered Journalist Grantees. If you are a Campus Consortium or Post-Grad Reporting Fellow, you are a Journalist Grantee.

If Pulitzer Center funds did not go toward a person’s work, but they will still be receiving a byline on the stories, then they would be considered a Guest Contributor.

Bio Information

For newsroom/organizational projects, we should receive this information from all the lead/key journalists on the project.

First Name

Last Name

Personal Email address

This email address MUST belong to this person. DO NOT use another person's email address. If you do, you will overwrite data with incorrect information.

Work email address

This email address MUST belong to this person. DO NOT use another person's email address. If you do, you will overwrite data with incorrect information.

Name as it should appear on our website

Pronouns (optional)

For our website, is this person a Journalist Grantee or Guest Contributor?

Journalist Grantee Guest Contributor For more information, please see the explainer above.

Twitter

Facebook

Instagram

Short bio for our website

Please upload a headshot for our website

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Crediting Requirements — All works from your Pulitzer Center-supported reporting project must include our required crediting. See crediting language and examples here.

Submit your stories — On the day of publication, stories must be submitted to the Pulitzer Center using our Grantee Story Submission form. Campus Consortium and Post-Grad Reporting Fellows should use the Reporting Fellow Story Submission Form.

Are you anticipating needing to update this form later? If you need to make changes to your submission, please re-submit this form and notify publishing@pulitzercenter.org.

Please be patient after clicking "Submit." Particularly if you chose large photos it can take a while to upload. You should receive an email confirmation after submitting.

Contact ID

Project ID (full Salesforce ID)

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