The Pulitzer Center Student Journalism Challenge: Global Water is accepting entries for submission until the April 8th deadline (full criteria in PDF). Students 18 and younger from schools around the world are invited to enter. Full NewsAction members can submit their entries here; students who are new to the site can join here. (Note that you must include teacher contact info to become a full member.) In researching their articles, student journalists will develop a better understanding of an issue that is critically important to their own futures.
The winning entry will receive an iPad 2, in addition to mentoring from a Pulitzer Center journalist to complete a reporting project of their choice. The resulting work will be published and featured on the Pulitzer Center and NewsAction websites. Contestants are encouraged to explore the resources available on the Pulitzer Center’s special water reporting collection, Downstream (http://pulitzercenter.org/downstream) in order to learn more about the issue before they begin their own reporting. Students may also find these resources helpful in learning about the topic:
* National Geographic Daily News|Water
* The Economist, "Special Report on Water,"
* New York Times, Toxic Waters Series
* Circle of Blue
* UN-Water
Download the full contest criteria here!
Contact Mark Schulte (schulte@wis.edu) for more information on joining the Student News Action Network.
If you have questions about the global water crisis and research, email Peter Sawyer (psawyer@pulitzercenter.org) at the Pulitzer Center.
Submit here.
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