Helium Partners with Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

Pulitzer Brings Global Issues to Helium, Awards Top Citizen
Journalists
ANDOVER, Mass.--(Business Wire)--Helium (www.Helium.com), the leader in online citizen journalism,
and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the leader in
international nonprofit journalism, join forces to raise awareness on
critical global issues. The partnership provides Helium members with a
platform to write about issues raised by the Pulitzer Center,
including international affairs that have been underreported,
misreported or not reported on at all.

"We view this partnership with Helium as a terrific extension of
the international reporting projects that we sponsor, our Global
Gateway education programs and our general outreach efforts - all
aimed at engaging the broadest possible public," said Jon Sawyer,
executive director of the Pulitzer Center.

The partnership is the first of its kind online, and gives citizen
journalists the opportunity to win an esteemed journalism award from
the Pulitzer Center. Helium members can compete by writing to any of
Pulitzer's featured global crisis issues. The Center will then pick
from the top-ranked articles in each category and award the winning
writer with a Pulitzer Center Citizen Journalism Award.

Each Pulitzer-sponsored title is associated with one of the
Center's global projects and the corresponding coverage. Helium
members can write to titles like "Is the accidental killing by U.S.
forces of civilians, in places like Somalia, an unavoidable part of
the war on terrorism?"

The Pulitzer Center leverages Helium's fair and trusted
peer-review rating. Every article at Helium is sorted for quality in a
simple, yet effective A versus B comparison. After many ratings by
many people, quality content rises to the top. Pulitzer will select
award winners from the site's most highly-ranked writers on each
issue.

"We welcome this opportunity to work with Helium to honor fresh
citizen voices on issues of global importance," said Sawyer. "This
partnership combines the innovative technology of Helium, the
journalism standards of the Pulitzer Center and the creative energy of
thousands of Helium writers."

At Helium's core is a community of writers and information
seekers, sharing quality content and expert insight. The experts at
Helium are a group of more than 95,000 citizen journalist writing on
more than 78,000 topics.

About the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting is an innovator in
international nonprofit journalism. It goes beyond the headlines and
sponsors in-depth independent coverage of underreported issues around
the globe. The Pulitzer Center supports the journalists and partners
with major media outlets to ensure publication or broadcast. The
Center promotes additional debate on the issues covered through the
use of multiple media platforms and interactive web-based technology.
The Pulitzer Center uniquely merges traditional media, new media and
educational outreach. Learn more at www.Pulitzercenter.org.

About Helium

Helium is connecting you with real-world knowledge through citizen
journalism. Helium goes beyond search, bringing together real advice
from real people on a wide variety of topics. Helium combines citizen
journalism with a simple yet highly effective peer-rating process
which pushes the best content to the top, whether there are 5 or 500
articles on a topic. Described as "About, Yahoo Answers and Wikipedia
all rolled into one," by Search Engine Journal, Helium is a fun
community for people who are passionate about a topic to read, write
and rate articles and be rewarded for their efforts. Try it now at
www.Helium.com.

SS PR
Jason Ovitt
P: 847.415.9326
E: jovitt@sspr.com
or
Helium
Kristin Webb
Marketing Communications Manager
P: 978.474.5074 x226
E: press@helium.com

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