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  • February 3, 2026
    Twenty Years and Counting

    The Pulitzer Center, a journalism and education organization that my husband founded, is now celebrating its 20th anniversary. For many of those years I worked with our university program, providing...

  • June 4, 2024
    On Leaving the Pulitzer Center

    Those of you who have been in this room at the Pulitzer Center Washington Weekend know how much it has meant to me over the years to work with our Reporting Fellows—and to watch their careers develop...

  • April 13, 2020
    Speaking Out on Coronavirus

    A snowstorm without the snow. That's what it's like in our neighborhood. The streets eerily quiet and the grocery shelves almost bare. But something's very different: Blizzards don't last for weeks (...

  • May 20, 2019
    Reporting on Social Justice

    [Image by Cammie Behnke. Rwanda, 2019.] Social justice has long been at the heart of many of the subjects I write about. My biographies tell stories of women and men committed to changing the world...

  • February 28, 2016
    Flight from Syria

    What I’d like to share with you this afternoon is one of the Pulitzer Center's new media projects—an e-book called "Flight from Syria: Refugee Stories"—a look behind the scenes at the lives of...