Transparency & Governance Reporting Grants (Global South)

Deadline: Ongoing Opportunity

The Pulitzer Center is seeking applications for the reporting initiative focused on the systems, organizations, and people that destabilize countries, erode democracies, and enable corruption.

Pulitzer Center grantees report on shadowy finance schemes, mismanagement, abuse of power, and other systemic exploits and failures that destabilize countries, erode democracies and governance, and empty national coffers. They investigate the root causes of corruption, including the laws and policies that provide cover to otherwise immoral activities.

They value cross-border and collaborative reporting, data-driven projects, and innovative, interdisciplinary approaches.

What they Don’t Fund?

• To save the grantees and staff time, they thought it would be helpful to outline editorial products and project expenses they don’t fund:
  • Books (they 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 (they do support short documentaries with ambitious distribution plans)
  • Staff salaries (with the exception of some of the 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-ups
  • Routine breaking news and coverage
  • Advocacy campaigns
  • Data projects aimed solely at academic research. Data should be developed to enhance/support journalism.

Who can apply?

• They particularly welcome applications from the Global South and seek reporting from Africa, Latin America and South and South East Asia.
• They are also interested in receiving proposals for collaborative reporting projects by teams of reporters investigating corruption, transparency, and governance issues.

For more information, visit Pulitzer Center.
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