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Lauren Rosenberg is an alumni of the University of Missouri-Columbia where she studied Communication and Interdisciplinary Studies with an emphasis in Journalism and Women’s and Gender Studies.She is currently the Big 12 women’s basketball beat writer for The Next.

Former Team USA Trampoline Doctor Accused of Allegedly Drugging and Sexually Abusing Athletes

By: Lauren Rosenberg Kristle Lowell is no stranger to trampoline and tumbling gymnastics. At the young age of 4, Lowell fell in love with trampoline.She started competing in the United States Trampoline & Tumbling Association (USTA), an organization that is completely separate from United States of America Gymnastics. Stephen Lowell, Kristle’s father, describes the people… Continue reading Former Team USA Trampoline Doctor Accused of Allegedly Drugging and Sexually Abusing Athletes

Of cows and ceramics: Relative Values at the Met

To hear Liz Cleland tell it, she came upon the cows almost by accident. While researching her graduate thesis, which focused on Renaissance-era tapestries, Cleland would pour through documents that charted the art world’s day-to-day activities. “I’d spent a lot of time in the archives, looking at documents – things like inventories, guild statutes, regulations,… Continue reading Of cows and ceramics: Relative Values at the Met

In the South Bronx, gun violence declines with small, deliberate steps

The entrance to the Save Our Streets South Bronx office sits a few extra feet back from the street, under a concrete overhang in the ground floor of a new-ish apartment complex. The poster in the door reads “Stop Shooting, Start Living.” On the bright orange wall above the reception desk, a small whiteboard announces… Continue reading In the South Bronx, gun violence declines with small, deliberate steps

The Exact Same Prize

Originally published, in different form, by Little Fiction (June 2012) If Montana had known Evan’s grandmother was about to toss herself off the roof, she probably would’ve sent Evan a text. But Mina hadn’t mentioned any plans for any roof, had only said, “Have him call me if you can.” A gigantic if, Montana knew,… Continue reading The Exact Same Prize

Toxic Planet

Women pluck hair by hand from goat hides soaked in an alkaline solution to loosen the fibers. This woman protects herself with gloves and a sheet of plastic wrapped around her sari as she works at a tannery outside Vaniyambad in the Vellore district of Tamil Nadu, India.

Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1 Flowing Toxins in Bangladesh and Indonesia Richard C. Paddock, Debbie M. Price, Larry C. Price Chapter 2China’s Dirty Pollution SecretHe GuangweiFred de Sam LazaroChapter 3India’s Contaminated Water and Poisoned LandscapeSean GallagherChapter 4Fire and SmokeMakenzie Huber, Nathalie Bertrams, Ingrid Gercama, Michelle Nijhuis, Lynn Johnson Chapter 5Polish Gold: Coal’s Deadly TollBeth… Continue reading Toxic Planet

Pulitzer Center 2017 Annual Report

In this Sunday, Nov. 19, 2017, photo, a Rohingya Muslim child runs on a mud track between tents at Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh. More than 620,000 Rohingya have fled Rakhine for neighboring Bangladesh since late August, when the military launched what it called "clearance operations" in response to insurgent attacks. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

An Associated Press exposé of rape and massacre in the Rohingya villages of Myanmar. A Los Angeles Times report on China’s growing influence across Africa. A six-part series for PBS NewsHour on Putin’s Russia. The New Yorker’s inside look at life in Pyongyang. A yearlong multimedia project with TIME tracking the lives of three Syrian… Continue reading Pulitzer Center 2017 Annual Report