On April 23rd, students of Westchester Community College were given the privilege of attending a seminar with two journalists from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting. The Pulitzer Center mainly focuses on reporting stories that go widely unnoticed by most public news sources, as well as giving grants to students who wish to bring developing stories into the eye of the public. Melissa Turley, a graduate of George Washington University, was one of these students. Through a grant awarded by the Pulitzer Center, Turley was able to travel to South Africa in order to report on the issues of women and their fight to empower sex workers and victims of abuse, despite facing a judicial system that does not always favor them.
This is the second of what will hopefully be many more presentations made by the Pulitzer Center at Westchester Community College, the first community college to be a part of the Campus Consortium program.
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