admin | November 20, 2025
The Pulitzer Center is offering grants to support ambitious, underreported stories from across sub-Saharan Africa. The initiative aims to strengthen wide-reaching journalism on issues that directly affect local communities, including water and sanitation, land degradation, coastal erosion, education, maternal health, and climate resilience.
The Center encourages applications from local journalists, and welcomes proposals from reporters, photographers, radio and audio producers, TV and video journalists, and documentary filmmakers. Both newsroom staff and freelance journalists of all nationalities are eligible.
The program supports projects across all media platforms. Successful proposals often combine print, photography, audio, and video, and collaborate with news outlets that can add interactive or multimedia elements to amplify the reporting.
Past grantees have covered a wide range of issues—from fast fashion in Lesotho, to coastal erosion in Ghana, to gold laundering in Uganda. Their work has appeared in leading international and African outlets.
The Pulitzer Center values data-driven, investigative, and accountability journalism, and encourages applicants to consider how to share their stories with the communities that will benefit most.
Application language: English
Target region: Sub-Saharan Africa
More information: https://gfmd.info/fundings/underreported-stories-in-sub-saharan-africa-2/
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.