Apply for Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting data journalism grants

Image from the Atlantic Conquest data journalism project by Guido Bilboa and Sol Lauría published February 2018.

DEADLINE: ROLLING BASIS ― The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is accepting applications for innovative data-driven journalism projects that spotlight underreported issues.

This opportunity is open to all newsrooms and independent journalists globally.

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is looking for proposals that will employ cutting-edge data techniques, as well as embrace collaboration among newsrooms, whether that be across state lines or across national borders.

The centre is seeking compelling data-driven storytelling, based on original data collection and analysis and strong visuals, that has the potential to shape public discourse and hold the powerful accountable.

Proposals that push the envelope in data collection and analysis and make use of advanced data mining techniques, such as machine learning, natural language processing, as well as spatial data analysis, satellite imagery, drones and sensors are encouraged.

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Interested applicants will be asked to provide the following:

A description of the proposed project, including distribution/publication plan, no more than 250 words. We look more favourably on proposals that include a letter(s) of interest or support from publishers or editors.
Methodology: Please describe your approach to collecting and analyzing the data, and include your approach for fact-checking or independently verifying the data that will be used in your reporting. (Fact-checking and data verification could be the role of the publishing partner, but please explain the process.)
A preliminary budget estimate, including a basic breakdown of costs. Include travel costs, software, satellite/GIS, or hardware costs. Please do not include stipends for journalists/team members who are in the employ of newsrooms or are being paid by a publisher. If you are a journalist collaborating with a data designer and/or data visual specialist you may include consultant fees in your budget.
Three examples (links) of published work by you (or someone your project team.) For example data visualizations, infographics, and/or data-driven stories.
Three professional references. These can be either contact information or letters of recommendation.
A copy of your resume or curriculum vitae.

Applications may also include a more detailed description of the project, but this will be considered as an optional supplement only. The most important part of the submission is the 250-word summary and the methodology.

The centre will select between three to five story proposals for grants in 2020 and will consider projects of any scope and size.

Interested applicants are encouraged to choose a team leader to submit the proposal, and submit only one project per journalist, data design team, or newsroom.