Global Reporting Grants

Global Reporting Grants

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Pulitzer Center
Amount: US $5,000 - US $10,000
Last Updated: March 05, 2026

Summary

The Pulitzer Center's Global Reporting Grants provide essential support for impactful journalism on critical global issues. This grant is open to journalists worldwide, with no restrictions on topics or locations, encouraging diverse stories, especially in conflict areas. Proposals that integrate various media formats are highly valued. Notably, the Center emphasizes safety training for journalists covering high-risk zones, ensuring their well-being while reporting. This initiative fosters ambitious projects that enhance original reporting through multimedia elements.

Overview

The Pulitzer Center’s global reporting grants support in-depth, high-impact reporting on critical issues that are often overlooked in the media. This is our "catch-all" grant, so there are no restrictions on topic or reporting location. Staff and freelance journalists are eligible worldwide. Conflict Reporting Advisory: We are eager to support in-depth, underreported stories related to conflicts around the world. Freelancers, please know that if you will be reporting in war zones and other high-risk regions, we will need a firm assignment from outlets agreeing to take full responsibility for your safety and well-being. Please review the ACOS principles. We encourage you to include Hostile Environment Training in the budget that you submit with your proposal. Please be advised that ultimately we are seeking the appropriate balance of experience, recent HEFAT safety training, language skills, and reporting project plans and details. We support projects across all media platforms and encourage ambitious proposals that combine print, photography, audio, and/or video for one or more news outlets. The most successful projects are those in which news outlets match our commitment by adding interactive, data, or multimedia elements to enhance and showcase their original reporting.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. Grants are open to reporters, photographers, radio/audio journalists, television/video journalists, and documentary filmmakers. We are committed to supporting journalists from diverse backgrounds and of all nationalities.Journalists from all countries and territories are eligible for grants.  This is our "catch-all" grant, so there are no restrictions on topic or reporting location for these grants.You can also explore our thematic grants, which focus on issues such as gender equality, climate change, tropical rainforests, AI accountability, data journalism, and more. If you are unsure about what grant opportunity best fits your project, submit your proposal through the global reporting grants form.

Ineligibility

To save our grantees and staff time, we thought it would be helpful to outline editorial products and project expenses we don’t fund:Books (we can support a story that might become part of a book, as long as the story is published independently in a media outlet) Feature-length films (we do support short documentaries with ambitious distribution plans) Staff salaries (with the exception of some of our yearlong fellowships)Equipment purchases (equipment rentals are considered on a case-by-case basis) An outlet’s general expenses (for example rent, utilities, insurance) Seed money for start-upsRoutine breaking news and coverage Advocacy/marketing campaigns Data projects aimed solely at academic research. Data should be developed to enhance/support journalism.