The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, is an American news media organization established in 2006, that sponsors independent reporting that other media outlets are less willing or able 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 organization is based in Washington, D.C. The Pulitzer Center functions as an independent division of the World Security Institute, itself a sponsor of independent journalism. The Center solicits welcomes proposals for reporting projects throughout the world, with an emphasis on issues that have gone unreported, under-reported or mis-reported in the mainstream American media. The Center's director is former Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau Chief Jon Sawyer.
Trustees
- Emily Rauh Pulitzer, Chair. Chair and founder of The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis.
- David E. Moore, member of the board of advisors at the World Security Institute and former board member of Pulitzer, Inc.
- William Bush, attorney, Fulbright & Jaworski. Partner-in-charge, New York.
Advisory Council
- Bill Berkeley, adjunct professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. Author of The Graves Are Not Yet Filled: Race, Tribe and Power in the Heart of Africa. Contributor to such publications as The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and The Washington Post.
- John Carroll, Former editor, Los Angeles Times.
- William Freivogel, university professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale's Paul Simon Public Policy Institute. Former Washington correspondent and deputy editorial page editor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
- Charlayne Hunter-Gault, journalist, currently based in South Africa and reporting for National Public Radio. Formerly a correspondent for CNN, PBS NewsHour, and The New York Times.
- Geneva Overholser, Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs Reporting at the University of Missouri. Former ombudsman, The Washington Post. Former editor, Des Moines Register.
