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Grants for Journalists to Encourage Innovations in Information Gathering Analysis

Grants to USA, Canada, and International journalists for projects that raise public awareness about under-reported news items. Funding is intended to encourage collaboration as well as the use of new techniques for information gathering and data analysis. Applicants that represent a broad array of social, racial, ethnic, underrepresented groups, and economic backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.

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. 

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is eager for proposals that will employ cutting-edge data techniques, as well as embrace collaboration among newsrooms, whether that be across state lines or across national borders. 

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting encourages proposals that push the envelope in data collection and analysis and make use of advanced data mining techniques, such as machine learning, natural language processing, as well as spatial data analysis, satellite imagery, drones and sensors.

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is seeking compelling data-driven storytelling, based on original data collection and analysis and strong visuals, that has the potential to shape public discourse and hold the powerful accountable.

This opportunity is open to U.S. residents and journalists around the world. The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is open to proposals from freelance data journalists, staff journalists, or groups of newsrooms working in collaboration with a data project idea.

The The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting wants to make sure that people from many backgrounds and perspectives are empowered to produce data journalism. They strongly encourage proposals from journalists and newsrooms who represent a broad array of social, racial, ethnic, underrepresented groups, and economic backgrounds.