Investigating Untold Religious Dimensions of Global Issues
As part of our collaboration with the Pulitzer Center between 2018 and 2025, the Berkley Center selected one Georgetown student annually to receive the Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellowship. Fellows investigated or illuminated the religious dimensions of an international or domestic issue, bringing to light what is often overlooked, untold, or misunderstood. The summer-long fellowship provided dedicated funding and professional mentorship to support student projects in journalism.
Mentorship – Working closely with the Pulitzer Center, recipients built on their project proposal and decided on storytelling strategies and a plan of deliverables. Deliverables could include a combination of articles, photography, audio, video, or other medium published on the Pulitzer Center website. Recipients were also encouraged to seek other outlets for their work.
Cohort Community – Our fellows joined other Campus Consortium fellows for the Pulitzer Center’s Washington Weekend, where students presented and discussed their reporting projects and heard from professional journalists and editors. Learn about past Pulitzer Center student fellows and their projects here.
Global Experience – Reporting projects spanned the globe. Successful applicants identified scholarly mentors from the Georgetown community and combined this academic expertise with on-the-ground reporting.
Full-time Georgetown undergraduate and graduate students at any campus (including the Law Center, School of Continuing Studies, and Georgetown University in Qatar) were eligible to apply.
The Pulitzer Center International Reporting Fellowship provided up to $3,000 to cover travel and on-site costs, including housing and food. The fellowship did not provide funds for the purchase of technological items that had a useful life beyond the fellow's trip abroad. The fellowship did allow for a portion of the budget to be used in hiring interpreters.
We welcomed applications from students at all stages of their undergraduate or graduate career. Preference was given to students who do not have professional reporting experience.
Fellows were selected in March of the award year, and they are expected to do the necessary preliminary research and networking prior to travel. Travel took place between May and July of the award year, and fieldwork took place over two to three weeks. Fellows could combine travel with other study abroad opportunities. Reporting projects were due in August of the award year.
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The Pulitzer fellowship is something I'm going to look back on as one of the most formative experiences of my life. It's motivated me to amplify voices that have gone unheard, whether in a future career in journalism or through nonprofit work.
Julia Friedmann
