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We believe that this is a moment for decisive action and we have taken the following steps:
- We agreed to an emergency grant supporting COVID-19 coverage by Science, ensuring that the magazine’s top infectious disease specialists can continue their work on this topic through the end of 2020.
- We issued the Coronavirus News Collaboration Challenge, a new initiative that has already produced more than 225 proposals, with requests totaling over $4 million dollars. We are supporting partnerships with local and national journalist teams across the U.S., as well as in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and beyond.
- We launched Speaking Out on Coronavirus, a platform for the Pulitzer Center community to report and reflect on living with coronavirus.
These reporting initiatives have resulted in over 76 stories on the pandemic already and with many more in process.
We have been equally proactive in our educational and public outreach, working to deploy effective instructional materials that are urgently needed for this school year and in semesters to come.
- Our education team has produced webinars on responsible reporting, an introduction to our many digital resources for hundreds of teachers, and lessons on the response to past infectious-disease epidemics that draw on the work of Pulitzer Center grantees.
- Our virtual Talks @ Pulitzer webinar series began with Dr. Seema Yasmin, a past grantee and current director of the Stanford Health Communication Initiative. The series continued with grantee Jon Cohen, a senior correspondent with Science,and science journalist Sonia Shah.
Our response to the coronavirus pandemic has been a compelling demonstration of our model’s power. We’ve already committed over $400,000 in emergency grants for the reporting alone, and have shifted resources on education and public outreach to focus on the immediate needs of educators and the public.With additional support we can do so much more!
Giving Tuesday Now is a new global day of giving and unity that will take place on May 5, 2020, as an emergency response to the unprecedented need caused by COVID-19. Please consider supporting the Pulitzer Center’s work at this important moment. And you don’t have to wait for Giving Tuesday Now to help.
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