Pulitzer Center’s Threats to Democracy in the US Call

• Eligibility Criteria:
  – This grant is open to journalists in the U.S. including freelance journalists, staff journalists, or groups of newsrooms working in collaboration with a project idea.
• Type of funding: Programmatic
• Target country: United States
• Application language: English

The Pulitzer Center is seeking proposals for enterprise stories that focus on threats to democratic institutions in the United States.

Topics can include, but are not limited to, voting suppression; misinformation and disinformation; intimidation of election officials; the politicisation of election systems; political violence; dark money; and extremism/militias.

The organisation aims to support teams that reflect the communities they report on. Pulitzer strongly encourages proposals from journalists and newsrooms who represent a broad array of social, racial, ethnic, underrepresented groups, and economic backgrounds. They hope this grant can help their partner organizations advance their diversity, equity, and inclusion goals and commitments.

See here to learn more and apply.

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