
Janet Roberts
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https://t.co/Z7rzyW0gXJ Data Journalism Editor at Reuters. Wishes she had more time for BBQ, painting and pi(e). she/her
Joined July 2010
RT @sudanreeves: #Reuters offers superb analysis of how famine came to prevail in #Zamzam IDP camp & elsewhere. Deeply researched, with rev….
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RT @mouthofmorrison: There is a dire situation unfolding in Darfur due to civil war - displaced civilians are dying of starvation in droves….
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People are starving to death in Sudan but no one knows how many. Enter @McNeill_Tweets and @RayTroncoso .of @Reuters. They used radar and optical sensor data from satellites to count new graves at Sudan's Zamzam camp for people displaced by war.
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The world has enough food and the technology to feed every person on Earth. Yet millions are starving. This @reuters story explains why.
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How a US health agency became a shield for polluters. The latest deep dive from the Reuters data journalism team. via @SpecialReports.
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For more on this topic, check out our full series, The Bat Lands. We used data to identify the parts of the world where the risk is highest of bat viruses spilling over to humans.
Here's a story about India's efforts to keep bat viruses from infecting people. It illuminates the debate engaging global negotiators who meet next week to continue work on a treaty aimed at improving pandemic prevention and response. via @SpecialReports.
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Here's a story about India's efforts to keep bat viruses from infecting people. It illuminates the debate engaging global negotiators who meet next week to continue work on a treaty aimed at improving pandemic prevention and response. via @SpecialReports.
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Read our May investigation The Bat Lands to understand why Kerala, India, is so prone to outbreaks of zoonotic diseases like Nipah:
Authorities closed down some schools and offices and declared more than seven villages as containment zones in the southern state of Kerala after it recorded two deaths from the rare and deadly brain-damaging Nipah virus
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Highly recommended read by my colleague @TomLasseter: A Reuters journalist explores his ancestors’ ties to slavery. via @SpecialReports.
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RT @cephillips: Every spring in my watchdog reporting class, one student team works with Reuters. The story from last spring is out. This t….
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A pledge to fight climate change is sending money to strange places. Read what @EMRumney, @JaimiDowdell, @irencs and Misato Nakayama found out. via @SpecialReports.
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Check out the simulation in this story by @grantmeaccess, who used @gleamviz to predict what would happen if an unknown bat pathogen emerged from the Amazon in Brazil. Great job by @Da_Pacific and @adolfux to bring it to life:
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RT @adolfux: Intro concepts and final illustrations for this story about how a deadly bat virus found new ways to infect people. https://t.….
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RT @Reuters: A behind-the-scenes look at how a new @specialreports series was conceived: The Bat Lands @mcneill_twe….
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One of the Reuters data team's most ambitious analyses of all time: We found >9 million sq km on Earth ripe for bat viruses to spill over, potentially causing a new global health pandemic. Data wizardry by @McNeill_Tweets and @allisonmartell
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