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The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, established in 2006, is a leader in sponsoring the 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 Pulitzer Center is a bold 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. From Teapot Dome through the civil rights struggle, Vietnam and the run-up to Iraq, the Pulitzers have stood for a "drastically independent" journalism that would "never be satisfied with merely printing news."

When the third Joseph Pulitzer became editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch a half century ago, he paid tribute to that legacy. "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, in times just as troubled.

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 will partner with the Institute's other divisions, especially in television production and Internet publications, both to identify potential reporting topics and to insure global distribution of the projects that result.

At a time of dwindling audience for traditional news sources, the Pulitzer Center engages the public across as many mediums and at as many levels as possible – from print and broadcast outlets to face-to-face community discussion and Internet technology. A special focus is our rapidly expanding Global Gateway, an education initiative that brings Pulitzer Center reporting projects and journalists into high school classes and to university campuses.

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.

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Ecuador: The New Law of the Jungle

Pulitzer Center's Kelly Hearn is in Ecuador covering what has been dubbed Ecuador's Rainforest Chernobyl and it could turn out to be one of the biggest legal environmental battles ever fought....