The New Pittsburgh Courier has learned that Pitt Magazine’s senior editor, Ervin Dyer, PhD, is the recipient of a 2019 Pulitzer Center International Reporting Grant. The Center partners with individual journalists and news organizations to support in-depth, high-impact reporting on topics of global importance, including telling stories on problems that are often overlooked by mainstream U.S. media.
Dr. Dyer will use the grant to report from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on an emerging and innovative urban church and its pastor. He will chronicle how the church is helping to strengthen the congregation members and build programming to battle the forces of inequality and corruption. Many of Dr. Dyer’s stories will be featured in the Courier.
Dyer earned a doctorate in sociology from Pitt studying African immigrant settlement into urban America and is an award-winning former reporter with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
He is also the founder of a storytelling collective that takes journalists, photographers and others to Haiti to share the voices of the ordinary men and women who fight back against oppression.
“We know that poverty is a huge challenge for many Haitian citizens. This Pulitzer Center grant is important because it allows me to tell one story of how oppressed Haitians are challenging and resisting poverty to make their lives better,” Dr. Dyer said. “There is a humanity in their resistance that we don’t hear much about.”
ERVIN DYER, PhD
by Courier Newsroom
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