Pulitzer Center Update March 12, 2024
3 Journalists Win 2024 Longworth Fellowships
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The Pulitzer Center is delighted to announce that the 2024 Richard C. Longworth Media Fellowships will go to Detroit Free Press reporter Keith Matheny, Free Press staff photographer Eric Seals, and Cambodia-based journalist Leila Goldstein.
Matheny and Seals will look into whether Canada’s coast-to-coast wildfire catastrophe of 2023 will become the new normal, devastating Canadian forests and blanketing wide swaths of the United States with toxic smoke.
Goldstein—who is an associate editor at CamboJA News, an independent outlet in Phnom Penh—will report for The Ohio Newsroom, a partnership of seven Ohio public radio stations, about the state’s competition with Southeast Asia in the manufacture of solar energy panels.
The Longworth Media Fellowships aim to reconnect Midwestern readers with international stories that impact their daily lives. Years of financial pressure forced regional outlets to cut foreign correspondents from their staffs.
The Fellowships are awarded each year, thanks to a generous grant provided by the Clinton Family Fund to honor Longworth, a former Chicago Tribune foreign correspondent and current Distinguished Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
