People Type: Distinguished Pulitzer Grantee Visitors

Biography Summary of Madison Activities In a conversation moderated by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Lindsay Palmer, Pulitzer Center grantees Fredrick Mugira and Ejiro Umukoro discussed their experiences covering two crises in Africa—water access in the Nile Basin and gender-based violence in Nigeria, respectively—in the midst of another crisis: the COVID-19 pandemic. The webinar, entitled “Reporting …

Biography Summary of Madison Activities Rachel Oswald, a journalist and former grantee of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, joined UW-Madison as a Distinguished Pulitzer Grantee Visitor in the Spring of 2022. While at UW-Madison, Rachel discussed the Russia-Ukraine war, and its impact on international relations in an IRIS NRC International Film Club event, “Russia-Ukraine: …

Biography Summary of Madison Activities Pulitzer Center grantee Mariana Palau visited UW-Madison in Spring 2020 to discuss her reporting in Colombia. Mariana’s presentation, “Colombia After the Conflict,” explored the long term success of the Colombian Peace Deal with over 30 students. The Center for Journalism Ethics conducted an interview with Mariana during her time at …

Biography Summary of Madison Activities Megha Rajagopalan presented a special talk titled, “Dateline Xinjiang: International Correspondent Megha Rajagopalan on Her Work Covering Police States” to over 50 students at UW-Madison. Rajagopalan worked with architect Alison Killing to produce the Pulitzer Center-supported reporting project Built to Last, an extensive investigation of China’s internment camp system. Drawing …

Biography Summary of Madison Activities In Spring 2019, Lindsay Palmer (UW-Madison) moderated a discussion on discrimination in the newsroom and field. The discussion, entitled, “Gender at Work: Overcoming Bias in the Newsroom,” was attended by over 200 people and headlined by Michelle Ferrier (Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University, TrollBusters.com), Christina Kahrl (ESPN) and Jon Sawyer …

Biography Summary of Madison Activities In Spring 2019, Tracy Lucht (Iowa State University) moderated a discussion about media representations and gender. This discussion, entitled, “The Power of Portrayals in a Wired World,” featured Barbara Glickstein (Center for Health Policy and Media Engagement at George Washington University School of Nursing), Kem Knapp Sawyer (Pulitzer Center), Linda …

Biography Summary of Madison Activities In a conversation moderated by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Lindsay Palmer, Pulitzer Center grantees Fredrick Mugira and Ejiro Umukoro discussed their experiences covering two crises in Africa—water access in the Nile Basin and gender-based violence in Nigeria, respectively—in the midst of another crisis: the COVID-19 pandemic. The webinar, entitled “Reporting …