Crises happen everyday in almost every corner of the world. But only the major ones–the violent wars, disastrous natural destruction, etc.–get reported extensively by the mainstream media. That left out those slow brewing, undramatic crises under reported.
The non-profit Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting tries to fill that gap. Since started in 2006, it has been doing some great jobs of covering various crises, such as HIV infections among sex workers in Dominican Republic, global water shortage, and child slaves in Haiti.
You can watch the video it produced at the Pulitzer Center’s Channel in YouTube.
June 4, 2008 at 9:17 pm
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