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We are thrilled to share with all of our followers, grantees, fellows, partners, and donors the start of the next phase in the Pulitzer Center’s commitment to advancing high-quality, impactful journalism worldwide.
Follow this thread 🧵 to learn more!
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The Pulitzer Center joins our colleagues in demanding that Brazilian authorities take every measure to find British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous activist Bruno Pereira, missing since Sunday in a remote area of Brazil’s Amazonas state.
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Teachers: looking for ways to use the
@nytimes
#1619Project
in the classroom? You can find free curriculums, guides, and activities for students developed by the Pulitzer Center here:
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Representative Ocasio-Cortez (
@AOC
) submitted
@JonathanBlitzer
and Mauricio Lima's Pulitzer Center-supported
@NewYorker
story on climate migrants from Guatemala to the House record Tuesday.
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We are very excited to announce that we are the official education partner for
@NYTmag
's
#The1619Project
! Teachers, our curricular resources are now online.
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Patanjali, an Indian Ayurvedic conglomerate, earned tens of millions during the COVID-19 pandemic by falsely advertising Coronil as a cure for the virus.
Read the full story here by
@Come_Bastin
for
@RFI
.
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Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro is making a move to force Brazil's indigenous people to assimilate—and seize their land for agribusiness. The latest in a new Rainforest Journalism Project and Pulitzer Center series for
@mongabay
.
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“We literally have people who are trying to legislate against the teaching of our history,” says
@nhannahjones
on the importance of teaching The 1619 Project and its themes.
Join us at the second edition of The 1619 Education Conference. February 18 & 19.
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New evidence reveals that the 2021 deaths of three aid workers in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, initially attributed to rebel groups, were in fact at the hands of government troops who feared aid workers as enemies, not allies. Grantee
@MarksSimon
for
@nytimes
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We launched The 1619 Project education portal in conjunction with the publication of "A New Origin Story" and "Born on the Water" by lead 1619 project writer
@nhannahjones
and
@reneewauthor
. Learn more in this update by our Executive Director, Jon Sawyer.
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We demand that Brazilian authorities deploy every resource toward finding British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous activist Bruno Pereira, missing since early Sunday in a remote region of Brazil’s Amazonas state.
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When Tigray fell to rebels last summer during Ethiopia’s brutal civil war, once-respected aid groups were accused of providing them with weapons. With 19 deaths in 2021, Ethiopia is the world’s deadliest country for aid workers.
@MarksSimon
for
@nytimes
.
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En Perú, durante los años del terrorismo, grupos subversivos torturaron y ejecutaron a un número indeterminado de mujeres trans y homosexuales en la Amazonía. Los crímenes siguen impunes.
#Cr
ímenesSilenciados, un especial de
@ElizabSalazar
y
@MarcoGarro9
.
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“The moment we start acting like we are Americans, we are going to take our country back.” A growing movement of sheriffs believe they have the power to overrule state and federal law, raising concerns from watchdog groups.
@JessPish
for
@TexasTribune
.
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The global community of rainforest and climate journalists
@Rainforest_RIN
and
@Rainforest_RJF
is gathered today at
#Interconnected22
and demands immediate action from the Brazilian government to find Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips.
#WhereAreDomAndBruno
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A scheme to award government contracts to dubious nonprofits diverted millions of dollars into the pockets of Honduran politicians.
@JeffGErnst
reports in a Pulitzer Center-supported story for
@Univision
.
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"Bottom line, we're not going to stop reporting. Long after this administration goes down, we will still be reporting," said journalist Ana Santos at a recent Pulitzer Center event on covering Duterte's extrajudicial drug war.
@iamAnaSantos
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We are thrilled that
@cinque_ale
's project “Alpaqueros” won a
@WorldPressPhoto
award.
These majestic photos tell the story of how alpaca breeders and scientists, in the Peruvian Andes, are working together to protect alpacas from climate change. 🧵
🦙 🦙
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The Pulitzer Center is pleased to announce the launch of the Rainforest Journalism Fund, a five-year, $5.5 million initiative focused on raising public awareness of the pressing environmental issues facing the world’s tropical forests.
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With fifteen texts, a man named Omar ibn Said wrote the only known surviving autobiography written in Arabic by someone still enslaved in America. Who was Omar, really? This Pulitzer-supported story is by
@JenBerryHawes
,
@gavin_mci
, &
@BryanBrussee
.
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A government-imposed blockade has created a humanitarian crisis in Tigray, Ethiopia, where only 8% of food aid has arrived since October 2021. According to the UN, 23,000 “severely wasted” children are at risk of imminent death.
@MarksSimon
for
@nytimes
.
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A collection of heartbreaking photos documents Duterte's campaign of terror against drug users in the Philippines.
@jameswdelano
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“The soldiers would not have taken this action if they had not been ordered to do so.” Maj. Teshome Abera, who witnessed the killing of 3 aid workers in Tigray, hopes that someone will be held accountable for their deaths. Grantee
@MarksSimon
for
@nytimes
.
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Mañana es el lanzamiento de
#AmazonUnderworld
🌳 una serie periodística que revela a los grupos criminales detrás de la devastación ambiental y las amenazas contra los pueblos indígenas de la Amazonía.
👉
@Rainforest_RIN
@AmazonUworld
@ArmandoInfo
@LigaNoSilencio
@InfoAmazonia
👈
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📼
@MarvinKalb
interviews
#PulitzerPrize
winner David
@Fahrenthold
and CNN's
@JakeTapper
about covering Trump.
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"They didn’t try to fix the brokenness, they just broke him more.”
At 11 years old, Joshua Keith Beasley Jr. was imprisoned by a Texas court. Five years later, he died by suicide in an adult prison.
Story by grantee
@LisaArmstrong
for
@TexasTribune
.
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Millennials are already changing the face of political leadership in Latin America. El Salvador is a prime example.
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Congratulations to
@Rainforest_RIN
Fellows
@jopoliszuk
&
@mramirezcabello
of
@ArmandoInfo
for winning the 2023 Global Shining Light Award for the reporting series
#CorredorFurtivo
.
#GIJC23
We invite you to check all the stories from this project.
👏 👏
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The Pulitzer Center is pleased to announce that Marina Walker Guevara (
@MarinaWalkerG
) will be joining us as Executive Editor on February 3! Please help us extend a warm welcome to our newest team member.
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Our senior adviser
@MarvinKalb
writes about the threat Donald Trump poses to freedom of the press for
@TheHill
.
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Teachers and parents: Looking for meaningful independent projects for your students during distance learning? We have a downloadable lesson to guide students in crafting poems for the Fighting Words Poetry Contest—plus, they can win cash prizes!
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Educators: Have you used
#The1619Project
curriculum? We want to hear from you! Take this 3-minute survey to tell us what support & resources you need, and whether you would be willing to share your lessons & student work as an example for other educators.
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Journalist
@dieguitocazar
, the co-founder and editor of
@EspaciadoraBar
and
@revistalate
magazines, won an
@Amazon_RJF
grant to produce a map that tracks the destruction of the Ecuadorian Amazon during the pandemic, to be published in
@MongabayLatam
.
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Thank you,
@nhannahjones
! Educators: Join us virtually on Feb. 19-20 as we host our first 1619 Education Conference, where you will hear from 1619 Education Network educators, professors,
#1619Project
contributors, and more.
Registration is free!
#BHM2022
With bills being enacted across the country to make it hard to teach about Black history, racism and the fight for equality,
#BHM2022
feels particularly important. A reminder for teachers/libraries, we have a free site to help you teach the truth.
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@theGrio
's Pulitzer-supported documentary "Afro-Latinx Revolution: Puerto Rico" is set to release on
@theGrio
,
@PrimeVideo
, and
@LocalNow
this week! It's a dynamic bilingual documentary created by award-winning journalist and host
@natashasalford
. Trailer:
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"The nuts and bolts of the Indian media machinery are completely broken, perhaps far more than India’s global media ranking suggests. The problem is systemic."
@Raksha_Kumar
reports in a Pulitzer Center-supported story for
@ForeignPolicy
.
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As equipes de reportagem da
@agenciapublica
estão no Vale do Javari, com o apoio do
@Amazon_RJF
, ao lado de jornalistas do mundo todo, no esforço de descobrir a verdade por trás das mortes de Dom Phillips e Bruno Pereira.
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We are thrilled to welcome our newest board member,
@AzmatZahra
! Azmat Khan is an acclaimed investigative journalist who recently headed the
@nytimes
into the human toll of U.S. airstrikes in the Middle East, and teaches at
@columbiajourn
. Welcome, Azmat!
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A HUGE congratulations to our partners
@nhannahjones
& the
@NYTmag
for winning a Pulitzer Prize (
@PulitzerPrizes
) in the Commentary category for the incredible
#1619Project
! We are honored to be your education partner, and we look forward to more to come.
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In the depths of the Amazon, one tree stands nearly as tall as the Statue of Liberty.
It took 3 years for a group of researchers to identify the tallest tree in South America.
Story by
@Rainforest_RJF
grantee
@PBLALB
and Richard Monastersky for
@Nature
.
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Before his murder, Jamal Khashoggi conceived a human rights initiative called Democracy in the Arab World Now. Two years after his death, the organization is relaunching in Washington, D.C. Grantee
@SarahAziza1
reports on its future for
@theintercept
.
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Today, 1% of the world is a barely livable hot zone. By 2070, that portion could go up to 19%. Billions of people call this land home. Where will they go? Read this incredible data journalism by grantees
@AbrahmL
@MeridithKohut
for
@NYTmag
&
@propublica
.
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In this article from the "Visions of Coronavirus" series by
@Ojo_Publico
, Indigenous artists use paintings, masks, & ceramics to express their memories about the impact of COVID-19 on the Indigenous community.
#InternationalDayoftheWorldsIndigenousPeoples
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We are pleased to announce a major new initiative: the Rainforest Investigations Network! Led by
@gufalei
(
@InfoAmazonia
founder), this fellowship will harness investigative reporting & intl. collaboration to tackle deforestation, corruption, & governance.
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We are thrilled to launch the 1619 Project education portal, where educators can find free lesson plans, student work, and reflections from teachers implementing 1619 materials. Find resources made with
@NYTMag
,
@PRHHigherEd
, and
@PRHSecondaryEd
:
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We are very sorry to hear about the layoffs at Buzzfeed and HuffPost last week. To everyone who lost their jobs, please keep our reporting grants in mind if you have a freelance project you’d like to work on while looking for a new staff position!
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We are deeply saddened by the death of American journalist and former grantee Brent Renaud while documenting the war in Ukraine. Renaud was an incredible filmmaker and journalist, dedicated to telling the underreported stories of refugees displaced by conflict.
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16 year-old Muhammad Najem is known in Damascus as “the little journalist” for his influential social media reporting on the Assad regime’s attacks on Syrian civilians.
@AJnaddaff
profiles Najem in a Pulitzer Center-funded story for
@CJR
.
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Teachers: looking for ways to use the
@nytimes
#1619Project
in the classroom? You can find free curriculums, guides, and activities for students developed by the Pulitzer Center here:
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"Como Salvar a Amazônia" era o título do livro que o jornalista Dom Phillips queria escrever.
Convidamos jornalistas a reportar como Dom queria: no local, pensando no futuro da Amazônia e em como evitar seu colapso.
Apresente sua proposta 👇
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What an incredible way to expand the reach of underreported stories! Check out this creative display of Pulitzer-supported
@prodavinci
reporting 👇
Gabino pasó 36 días hospitalizado en terapia intensiva después de contraer COVID-19. Paulino falleció por una reacción de su sistema inmunológico contra el virus.
En alianza con
@prodavinci
y con apoyo del
@pulitzercenter
contamos sus historias a través de nuestros papelógrafos.
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Climate scientists react to Trump's presidency -- is the battle against climate change a lost cause?
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The Pulitzer Center has joined with 18 news organizations in supporting the ‘Future of Local News Commission’ Act, introduced today by Senators
@BrianSchatz
,
@MichaelBennet
, and
@amyklobuchar
. Local news is at a moment of crisis and needs support.
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"This struggle for us is war, because it is dangerous, risky. The invaders don’t respect us. They want confrontation." Sam Eaton reports on the indigenous groups fighting to save the Amazon rainforest.
@eatonsam
@pbsnewshour
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We are excited to present '2023: A Year In Stories,' a compilation selected by the Pulitzer Center staff out of over 1,000 of our supported stories.
The stories of hope, resilience, & community-based solutions represented give us optimism for the future.👉
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As equipes de reportagem da
@agenciapublica
estão no Vale do Javari, com o apoio do
@Amazon_RJF
, ao lado de jornalistas do mundo todo, no esforço de descobrir a verdade por trás das mortes de Dom Phillips e Bruno Pereira.
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16 year-old Muhammad Najem is known in Damascus as “the little journalist” for his influential social media reporting on the Assad regime’s attacks on Syrian civilians.
@AJnaddaff
profiles Najem in a Pulitzer Center-funded story for
@CJR
.
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For years, sexual harassment has been a problem in Antarctic expeditions.
Reports on this issue mark the beginning of a long-overdue reckoning on sexual misconduct in the scientific community.
By 2022 Reporting Fellow
@csbelliott
for
@undarkmag
.
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The 1619 Project's
@nhannahjones
and other contributors will join the Pulitzer Center &
@AFTteach
on Feb. 18 at 5pm EST to explore selected essays from the groundbreaking
@NYTmag
project & discuss the Center's new 1619 Project Education Network! Sign up:
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Today, 1% of the world is a barely livable hot zone. By 2070, that portion could go up to 19%. Billions of people call this land home. Where will they go? Read this incredible data journalism by grantees
@AbrahmL
@MeridithKohut
for
@NYTmag
&
@propublica
.
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Say hello to one of our 2021 Post-Graduate Reporting Fellows from
@columbiajourn
: Damilola Banjo (
@RealBanjo
)! Damilola will report on sexual violence toward women in Nigeria, particularly during the COVID-19 lockdown. Welcome, Damilola!
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@HowardU
@C4JDHowardU
@nhannahjones
@NicoleFCarr
@Grace_Jens
@SchmittMikaela
“We stand today at a crossroads. America will either be a multiracial democracy in the 21st century, or we will not be a democracy,” said Steve Levitsky, Harvard professor and author, when speaking about how threats to U.S. democracy imperil journalism.
@C4JDHowardU
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Please join us in congratulating our 2021 Breakthrough Journalism Award winner
@mariana_palau
& runner-up
@alexander_clapp
! Palau was recognized for her reporting on the false positives scandal that felled Colombia’s military hero. Learn about our winners:
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We’d also like to recognize the 2022 Breakthrough Journalism Award runner-up,
@LuisaGTellez
! García Tellez was recognized for her work on “Where’s My Pension?,” an investigation into the hidden investments made by pension managers in Latin America.
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We are so excited to introduce the first cohort of the Rainforest Investigations Network! 13 journalists from 10 countries will investigate key issues facing the future of the Amazon, the forests of the Congo Basin, & Southeast Asia. Meet the 2021 fellows:
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We are pleased to announce the second cohort of
@Rainforest_RIN
Fellows!
19 journalists from 12 countries have been selected to investigate environmental crimes, supply chains, and public policies that contribute to global rainforest destruction.
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THREAD: A review of thousands of public documents and dozens of interviews with prosecutors, forest rangers, and members of President Bolsonaro’s inner circle shows that Brazil’s government is engaged in an active campaign to open up the Amazon to privatization and development.
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As Ukraine suffers a barrage of Russian missile strikes, grantee
@SimonOstrovsky
looks at these missiles under a microscope and discovers American-made parts.
How is the U.S. enforcing war sanctions on weapons supply to Russia?
A report for
@NewsHour
.
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Our next 2020 Post-Graduate Reporting Fellow from
@columbiajourn
is Musinguzi Blanshe (
@Johnblanshe_m
), whose project focuses on human rights in Uganda. Welcome, Musinguzi!
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Pakistan is no longer a safe haven for Uyghurs. Under pressure from the Chinese government, Pakistan’s police are now deporting members of the Muslim minority group back to China. This Pulitzer-supported reporting is by
@Brent_Huffman
for
@VICENews
.
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We are pleased to introduce you to the Pulitzer Center’s inaugural cohort of AI Accountability Fellows! 10 journalists across 10 countries and four continents will explore AI’s impact on communities around the world.
Meet our AI Fellows. 🧵
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We are pleased to announce that the Pulitzer Center will continue supporting
@CarolRosenberg
's award-winning coverage of justice and national-security issues surrounding the U.S. detention facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, at her new home at the
@nytimes
.
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A new interactive website from the Pulitzer Center's Rainforest Journalism Fund and journalist
@GuidoBilbao
tells the stories of the activists defending Panama's vast Darién wilderness from commercial and colonial deforestation.
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THREAD: Data journalism is a critical component of holding the powerful accountable. We’re eager to support more projects that use DATA in ambitious & innovative ways by journalists around the globe, not just in the U.S! Get inspired by these recent data projects we've supported:
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TOMORROW: Join us for Day 1 of the 1619 Education Conference! 🎉
This free, virtual event will explore core themes and resources from The 1619 Project and its impact in education spaces:
Here's a preview of what to look forward to this weekend. 🧵
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@emarvelous
is an award-winning journalist and editor-at-large for
@The19thNews
. Her project, "Portraits of a Pandemic," focused on the impact of the coronavirus on health care, employment, women, people of color, & more in Philadelphia.
#BlackHistoryMonth
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How have Black American freedom struggles been foundational to other struggles?
Answer this question and others with this viewing guide to accompany the Emmy-nominated docuseries, “The 1619 Project.”
Explore the resource 👇
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For years, artificial intelligence has been shaping society—from criminal justice decisions to medical diagnoses.
We believe journalism is essential to help communities understand its widespread influence in our lives. 🧵
👉 👈
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In the fierce global battle to acquire life-saving ventilators, smaller countries like Paraguay face explosive costs, no-bid contracts & the prospect of simply lacking enough equipment to treat its citizens. For
@elsurti
,
@simonajaz
&
@Rominacaceres
report.
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“A very, very hard job to do...This is the least I can do to help my people.” Over the course of one year, a Tigrayan man living in Sweden has compiled a list of 3,080 victims from the war in Ethiopia. Cara Anna,
@NatCasta
&
@DavidKeyton
report for
@AP
.
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“They were bombing every day, it became impossible to live there.” About 40,000 civilians have fled from Karabakh into Armenia, where they are being accommodated in schools, hotels, and in volunteers’ homes. Grantee
@joshuakucera
reports for
@EurasiaNet
.
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To preserve the declining te reo Māori language, Peter-Lucas Jones and Keoni Mahelona of
@TeHiku
built a digital library of audio samples, taking the first step to establish data sovereignty as a form of colonial resistance.
@_KarenHao
for
@techreview
.
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Did your college or university benefit from stolen Indigenous land? Join us on Tues, April 21, 2020 at 1:00 PM ET for a Talks @ Pulitzer webinar about the "Land-Grab Universities" investigation by
@highcountrynews
.
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Kicking off the conference tomorrow at 1:00pm ET,
@nhannahjones
, creator of The 1619 Project, will reflect on the project’s ongoing work as it approaches its fifth anniversary this year.
Register for the conference to attend the session:
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Brazilian journalist Gustavo Faleiros (
@gufalei
), a pioneer of rainforest accountability reporting & founder of the data journalism outlet
@InfoAmazonia
, is leading a major new Pulitzer Center initiative: The Rainforest Investigations Network! More:
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This video by
@Rainforest_RIN
fellow
@hyurypotter
on
@TheInterceptBr
's site shows the damage of illegal mining in the Brazilian Amazon. The full story is available in Portuguese.
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The amount of effort and attention to detail that goes into handwriting the news....
@elbusTV
does incredible work!
Desmayos, pérdida del apetito y debilidad fueron los síntomas de Iraida de Chávez, paciente de 62 años contagiada de COVID-19: “Creo que me voy a morir de vieja, o de risa”.
Llevamos su historia a los papelógrafos en nuestra cobertura con
@prodavinci
y el
@pulitzercenter
👇
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