Bringing Stories Home is the Pulitzer Center’s initiative designed to help local U.S. newsrooms cover the big, underreported stories that affect us all—and through education and other outreach promote the public engagement that is essential if their democracy is to thrive.
Donor Name: Pulitzer Center
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): Ongoing
Details:
News outlets eligible for participation in Bringing Stories Home include all those serving local U.S. communities. The Pulitzer Center is already actively working with partner outlets in many cities, from Milwaukee to Louisville to Tucson to St. Louis. Bringing Stories Home represents a major investment in local news, providing resources to cover stories that might not otherwise get told.
They aim to support teams that reflect the communities they report on. They hope Bringing Stories Home can help their partner organizations advance their diversity, equity, and inclusion goals and commitments.
Criteria
- Their editorial team meets regularly to review the proposals they receive.
- Freelancers are eligible for Bringing Stories Home grants as long as they publish their stories in U.S. local outlets.
The Pulitzer Center provides grants to cover the hard costs of reporting projects. Grants are open to all journalists: writers, photographers, radio producers, and filmmakers; staff journalists as well as freelancers. They support veteran reporters who have been widely published, but also back younger applicants who are looking for help to jumpstart their careers. A diversity of voices— gender, ethnicities, backgrounds and nationalities—is important. Some applicants get a grant on their first try; others have to work harder at it. One applicant who was twice rejected kept coming back and eventually went on to do a dozen different projects with Pulitzer Center support.
For more information, visit Bringing Stories Home: Local Reporting Grants.
