Britain’s government is engaged in the steepest deficit reduction of modern times. People are losing, or will soon lose, benefits in the biggest shakeup in the shape and scope of Britain’s welfare state since its foundation more than 60 years ago. A team of reporters from the Financial Times tracks the cuts and their impact in this comprehensive multimedia project.

In this video, Sarah Neville discusses the project. Read her look behind the scenes of the project here.

This report is part of a Pulitzer Center-sponsored project “Britain: Charting the Impact of Austerity.”

National Geographic fellow and Pulitzer Center grantee Paul Salopek called into NPR from Saudi Arabia to recount the most recent leg of his seven year journey. Listen to Paul and view a slideshow of the walk so far here. Image:Salopek reaches the end of the trail in Ethiopia and descends into Djibouti, on the Red Sea coast. Image by Paul Salopek/Courtesy of National Geographic. Ethiopia, 2013. Paul will be online on Friday 5/10 at 1pm ET answering your questions. Follow along at #edenwalkchat.
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National Geographic fellow and Pulitzer Center grantee Paul Salopek called into NPR from Saudi Arabia to recount the most recent leg of his seven year journey. Listen to Paul and view a slideshow of the walk so far here.

Image:Salopek reaches the end of the trail in Ethiopia and descends into Djibouti, on the Red Sea coast. Image by Paul Salopek/Courtesy of National Geographic. Ethiopia, 2013.

Paul will be online on Friday 5/10 at 1pm ET answering your questions. Follow along at #edenwalkchat.

Freelance photographer Greg Constantine will wrap up a two-week US visit with an evening talks @ pulitzer in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, April 30. We will live-stream the event using Google Hangout on Air. The live video feed will be available on this page and also on YouTube. Tweet your questions using #PClive. Since 2006 Constantine has worked on a project called “Nowhere People,” which examines the plight of minority groups who are not citizens of any country. Exhibitions and projections of his work have been held in St. Louis, Dhaka, London, Geneva, Nairobi, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Washington, DC, and at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. His first book, “Kenya’s Nubians: Then & Now,” was published in late 2011 and his second, “Exiled To Nowhere: Burma’s Rohingya,” in May 2012. Constantine and reporter Stephanie Hanes worked together on the Pulitzer Center-supported 2012 reporting project “Statelessness: A Human Rights Crisis.” The National Press Photographers Association recently named the related Pulitzer Center-produced e-book “In Search of Home” one of the best Tablet/Mobile Delivery projects of the year. The e-book focuses on stateless people from Kenya, Burma and the Dominican Republic. Tuesday, April 306-7:30pm
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Freelance photographer Greg Constantine will wrap up a two-week US visit with an evening talks @ pulitzer in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, April 30. We will live-stream the event using Google Hangout on Air. The live video feed will be available on this page and also on YouTube. Tweet your questions using #PClive.

Since 2006 Constantine has worked on a project called “Nowhere People,” which examines the plight of minority groups who are not citizens of any country. Exhibitions and projections of his work have been held in St. Louis, Dhaka, London, Geneva, Nairobi, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Washington, DC, and at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. His first book, “Kenya’s Nubians: Then & Now,” was published in late 2011 and his second, “Exiled To Nowhere: Burma’s Rohingya,” in May 2012.

Constantine and reporter Stephanie Hanes worked together on the Pulitzer Center-supported 2012 reporting project “Statelessness: A Human Rights Crisis.” The National Press Photographers Association recently named the related Pulitzer Center-produced e-book “In Search of Home” one of the best Tablet/Mobile Delivery projects of the year. The e-book focuses on stateless people from Kenya, Burma and the Dominican Republic.

Tuesday, April 30
6-7:30pm

Get ready inter-webs. Pulitzer Center is going live. Talks @ Pulitzer is coming to the web via Google Hangout on Air. On Tuesday at 6pm, photographer Greg Constantine will be speaking about his work on statelessness and his award-winning e-book. The video will be streaming on our website on this page, and you can tweet questions and thoughts to us at #PClive.
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Get ready inter-webs. Pulitzer Center is going live. Talks @ Pulitzer is coming to the web via Google Hangout on Air. On Tuesday at 6pm, photographer Greg Constantine will be speaking about his work on statelessness and his award-winning e-book. The video will be streaming on our website on this page, and you can tweet questions and thoughts to us at #PClive.

Thursday: World Malaria Day Google Hangout

There’s a new foe in the fight against malaria: fake drugs.

In Uganda and Tanzania, two of the countries worst-plagued by the disease, the fake pills are, quite simply, everywhere. Nearly everyone has a story about fake medications, mostly malaria pills. A a result of overloaded government hospitals and corruption, which leads to drugs going missing from official supplies, thousands of people turn to their local pharmacy. But in many cases–up to one third of the time–those drugs are fake. The parasite lives on and, when the drugs contain half-strength of partial active ingredients, the parasite can potentially become resistant to real treatment. The concrete evidence is limited at this stage, but most signs point to China being the source of the fake drugs.

On World Malaria Day, join Pulitzer Center grantee Kathleen McLaughlin, Cobus Van Staden of The China in Africa Podcast and Dr. Patrick Lukulay, program director for the Promoting the Quality of Medicines initiative at the US Pharmacopeial Convention, for a Google Hangout on the impact of fake malaria drugs. They will discuss who is responsible as well as the implications for health and the state of relations between China and African countries.

McLaughlin reported on fake malaria drugs in Uganda and Tanzania for The Guardian and The Washington Post. Cobus Van Staden is a host of The China in Africa Podcast, which follows Chinese engagement across Africa, and a research fellow at the University of Johannesburg’s Centre for African Diplomacy and Foreign Policy. Dr. Patrick Lukulay has deep experience with the pharmaceutical industry, in both drug development and quality control. He now leads a USAID-funded project to assist countries in fighting sub-standard or counterfeit medicines.

Thursday, April 25th
9am EST

How to join
Go here 9am on Thursday, April 25th, to watch the Google Hangout, or you can join us on Google+ (link to be posted 20 minutes before the chat). You can also participate and ask questions by using #fakedrugs on Twitter. You can sign up here to get a reminder in your email 15 minutes before the chat begins.

April is Poetry Month. In this video, poet and Pulitzer Center grantee Kwame Dawes reads his poem “Bebe’s Wish”, featuring the photography of Andre Lambertson. 

Read the story of Bebe, a sex worker who lives in the tent camps in the suburbs of Port-au-Prince, in our award-winning multimedia e-book Voices of Haiti. The e-book for iPad features poetry from Kwame Dawes, photography from Andre Lambertson, reporting from Lisa Armstrong and music from Kevin Simmonds.


Join us in celebrating National Poetry Month by sending your poems inspired by the topics we report on to pulitzercenter (at) gmail (dot) com by April 30th. We’ll put our favorites on our site.

Pulitzer Center grantee Dimiter Kenarov talks about his month-long tour of US universities, schools and public events talking about his shale gas reporting project. Kenarov investigated Poland’s nascent shale industry and then dove into Pennsylvania and Ohio to see what effects fracking was having on local communities. Over the course of the tour, he spoke to more than 2000 people!

Help raise awareness about the state of our blue planet by donating to Ocean Matters, our fund for in-depth journalism on the oceans.

If you donate $25, we’ll send you an “Ocean Matters” environmentally-friendly notebook. For $50, you’ll get your pick of one of our award-winning iBooks. And for $100, you can see behind-the-scenes in the publishing industry by sitting in on an editorial meeting!

Check out our other rewards here, and donate today!

“Making love to an old man is like // Making love to a limp cornstalk blackened by fungus.”

This landai, or two-line poem, is from Afghanistan, written by a woman forced to marry an old man when she was 15. 

Journalists Eliza Griswold and Seamus Murphy chronicled women’s use of poetry in Afghanistan. Read and see their work and more poems here.

It’s National Poetry Month. Send us your poems about the topics we cover or any haikus or poetry you find in our reporting, and we’ll post our favorites on our site. Email them to pulitzercenter (at) gmail (dot) com.

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Photo: A landai in the notebook of a new young poet. Image by Seamus Murphy. Afghanistan, 2012.