The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Data Journalism Grants 2020 for innovative data-driven journalism projects

Application Deadline: Ongoing

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a non-profit organization that supports independent global journalism, is seeking applications for innovative data-driven journalism projects that spotlight under reported issues. This opportunity is open to all newsrooms and independent journalists in the United States and abroad. 

For inspiration, here are recent examples Pulitzer Center-supported data journalism projects:

• Taken: How the Police Profit from Seized Property
• Nations Divided: Mapping Canada’s Pipeline Battle
• Forced Out: Measuring the Scale of Conflict in South Sudan
• The Atlantic Conquest
• Mapping Makoko
• Sucked Dry: Land Grabs Leave Thirst in Nile River Communities
• Power Play: How Chinese Money Damned Myanmar’s Economic Transition
• Kruger’s Contested Borderlands

Requirements

• This opportunity is open to U.S. residents and journalists around the world. 
• The Pulitzer Center are open to proposals from freelance data journalists, staff journalists, or groups of newsrooms working in collaboration with a data project idea.  We want to make sure that people from many backgrounds and perspectives are empowered to produce data journalism. We strongly encourage proposals from journalists and newsrooms who represent a broad array of social, racial, ethnic, underrepresented groups, and economic backgrounds.

Application Procedure:

To apply, you will be asked to provide the following:

• A description of the proposed project, including distribution/publication plan, no more than 250 words.  We look more favorably on proposals that include a letter(s) of interest or support from publishers or editors.
• Methodology: Please describe your approach to collecting and analyzing the data, and include your approach for fact-checking or independently verifying the data that will be used in your reporting. (Fact-checking and data verification could be the role of the publishing partner, but please explain the process.)
• A preliminary budget estimate, including a basic breakdown of costs.  Include travel costs, software, satellite/GIS, or hardware costs. Please do not include stipends for journalists/team members who are in the employ of newsrooms or are being paid by a publisher.  If you are a journalist collaborating with a data designer and/or data visual specialist you may include consultant fees in your budget.
• Three examples (links) of published work by you (or someone your project team.) For example: data visualizations, infographics, and/or data-driven stories.
• Three professional references. These can be either contact information or letters of recommendation.
• A copy of your resume or curriculum vitae.

Applications may also include a more detailed description of the project, but this will be considered as optional supplement only. The most important part of the submission is the 250-word summary and the methodology.

Email [email protected] – we’re checking emails daily and look forward to hearing from you.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Pulitzer Center Data Journalism Grants 2020