The Pulitzer Center is seeking proposals for enterprise stories that focus on threats to democratic institutions in the United States.
Donor Name: Pulitzer Center
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): Ongoing
Details:
Topics can include, but are not limited to, voting suppression; misinformation and disinformation; intimidation of election officials; politicization of election systems; political violence; dark money; and extremism/militias.
Benefits
Do you pay stipends or salaries for freelance journalists?
- They expect news organizations to pay freelance journalists for their work, though in exceptional cases, they may consider stipends to cover a reporter’s time, if provided in the budget with an explanation. It is OK to include costs of contractors, such as data researchers, illustrators, or data visualization/story designers in your proposal and budget. Please do not include stipends for journalists/team members who are in the employ of newsrooms or are being paid by a publisher.
Eligibility Criteria
- This opportunity is open to journalists in the U.S. They accept proposals from freelance journalists, staff journalists, or groups of newsrooms working in collaboration with a project idea. They want to make sure that people from many backgrounds and perspectives are empowered to produce journalism. They strongly encourage proposals from journalists and newsrooms that represent a broad array of social, racial, ethnic, underrepresented groups, and economic backgrounds.
For more information, visit Pulitzer Center.