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RESOURCES & BEST PRACTICES
Receiving Grant Funds Checklist
Receiving Grant Funds Checklist
First Payment
First Payment
The Pulitzer Center has two payment cycles per month. Please complete all paperwork as soon as possible to ensure that your payment is sent out in the next cycle.
Signed contract
Each journalist must complete this paperwork. It must be completed with each new grant contract.
Project page website materials
The project page remains unpublished until the first story runs.
Project title, description, and photo
Emails, bios, and headshots for journalists who will have a byline or photo credit
Please be as complete as possible to minimize future requests for bios when stories are published.
Questions about our website?
Reach out to publishing@pulitzercenter.org
Second Payment
Second Payment
Newly published stories must be submitted to the Pulitzer Center within one day of their publication.
Submit your story to the Pulitzer Center on publication day via this form.
If your story includes multimedia or images, please upload these assets to our Digital Asset Management system, Canto, here.
Please alert your editor that the deliverables are complete. The second payment will not be sent until your editor alerts the admin team that the reporting is complete.
Questions about paperwork or payments?
Reach out to paperwork@pulitzercenter.org.
Adding someone to your project?
After initial approval, any journalist added to the project must fill out this form.
Crediting Requirements
Crediting Requirements
As a nonprofit, the Pulitzer Center’s mission to support quality journalism relies on our ability to raise funds. Our fundraising efforts depend on grantees like you to secure prominent, up-top crediting for our support in the publications of your reporting projects. Please share this link with the publishers of your project for the required crediting language, logo, and examples.
Ideal credit placement is near the top of the first page or landing page for print and digital versions of the project or delivered in the introduction of broadcast stories, radio pieces, podcasts, and videos. If you have any trouble securing this placement, please be sure to let us know, and we’ll work with you on this.
Story Submission and Publication
The Pulitzer Center republishes all stories it funds at www.pulitzercenter.org. Grantees must use this link to submit publications to the Pulitzer Center as soon as they are published, so we can republish them and promote them on social media. This form will also ask about image rights and byline author information.
Monthly Check-ins
Please keep in touch with your Pulitzer Center editor throughout your project. Let us know if everything is going well, if there are any changes in the scope of the stories, or if any mishaps have come up.
Questions about our publishing process and how to get your story on our website?
You can visit our publishing information sheet. This includes information about translations, paywalls, photo rights, and more. Still confused? Email the team at publishing@pulitzercenter.org.
Suggested Crediting Language
Safety and the ACOS Alliance
Freelance journalists often expose themselves to significant risks during their work. The Pulitzer Center strongly believes that news organizations and journalists must recognize these risks, minimize them wherever possible, and prepare properly when it is necessary to work in a dangerous or hostile environment. If your reporting is likely to involve hostile situations, it is vitally important to communicate and discuss safety protocols with the editors who will be publishing/broadcasting your reporting.
Our video Facing Risk will give you a good sense of the conversations journalists owe their loved ones and editors back home. We strongly urge you to read and adhere to the ACOS (A Culture of Safety) Alliance principles throughout your reporting project.
Quick Links
Quick Links
Crediting Requirements
Share this with your editors!Grantee Story Submissions
Submit your stories to us on the day they publish!Multimedia Submissions
Upload your project photos and videos directly to our content management system!Grantee Listserv
Get the latest news on our grant opportunities and events, and connect with other grantees! Please ask your editor for details.Grantee Facebook Group
Join our grantee-only Facebook group!
Amplifying Reach and Impact
Amplifying Reach and Impact
The Pulitzer Center is eager to highlight incredible reporting done by our grantees. Help us amplify the reach and impact of your project through collaborations on social media and events with our Engagement team!
The Pulitzer Center is eager to highlight incredible reporting done by our grantees. Help us amplify the reach and impact of your project through collaborations on social media and events with our Engagement team!
Engage with Us
The Pulitzer Center’s outreach, K-12 education, and Campus Consortium teams work with journalists to bring their reporting to broader audiences and expand conversations on the issues raised in their projects through lesson plans, workshops, class presentations, webinars, exhibitions, community forums, and more. Our International Education and Outreach team connects journalists to regionally-specific outreach opportunities in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. Please let us know if you are eager to connect with students and community members or plan to organize outreach activities after publishing your project.
Impact
We care about your work and know it makes a difference. We need your help to help us highlight your project's impact! As your project progresses, please complete this quick form to alert us to any impact your reporting is having.
Please complete the impact survey we will send you after your stories are published, but also feel free to send any feedback you’ve received to impact@pulitzercenter.org at any time.
Curious about what impact looks like? Visit our impact page on our website.
Social Media Guidelines
You can read about our social media presence and guidelines here. We encourage you to join our many grantees and alumni in adding @pulitzercenter grantee (or Fellow) to your X (formerly known as Twitter) and Instagram bios!
The Pulitzer Center is active on X (formerly known as Twitter), Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube. Additional X (formerly known as Twitter) accounts are dedicated to our rainforest and ocean work with the Rainforest Investigations Network and Ocean Reporting Network and.
With over 200K followers across social media channels, we engage over 500K people per month with Pulitzer Center reporting, education resources, events, and more. We are eager to partner with our grantees and news outlets to coordinate publications, content strategy, and social media campaigns. Please reach out to us as soon as you have a publication date so we can plan ahead and coordinate communications activities.
Please reach out to the Pulitzer Center Communications team (comms@pulitzercenter.org) or Social Media Coordinator Alonso Balbuena (abalbuena@pulitzercenter.org) and copy your editor if you are interested in coordinating a social media collaboration.
Helpful Contacts
Helpful Contacts
Editorial team
reacheditorial@pulitzercenter.org
Editorial admin & payments
paperwork@pulitzercenter.org
Administrative Program Coordinator Fernanda Ledesma
fledesma@pulitzercenter.org
Program Coordinator, Environmental Investigations Doménica Montaño
dmontano@pulitzercenter.org
Rainforest Reporting Grant Contact Detty Saluling dsaluling@pulitzercenter.org
Director of Communications & Audience Engagement Sarah Swan
sswan@pulitzercenter.org
Publishing Manager Dana Thompson
dthompson@pulitzercenter.org
Editorial & Communications Coordinator
Katherine Jossi
kjossi@pulitzercenter.org
Social Media Coordinator Alonso Balbuena
abalbuena@pulitzercenter.org
K-12 Education team
education@pulitzercenter.org
Campus and Outreach team
outreach@pulitzercenter.org
International Education and Outreach team
ieo@pulitzercenter.org
Impact team
impact@pulitzercenter.org
Publishing team
publishing@pulitzercenter.org
Communications team
comms@pulitzercenter.org
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