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Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter.org · 1d

"They are one of the last bastions of hope that tomorrow we will have a more habitable planet."

Dive into this Behind the Story interview with grantees Daniel Biasetto and John Reid about their reporting process on uncontacted communities in the #Amazon.

👉 bit.ly/42tyJMD

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Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter.org · 1d

Please help us welcome reporter Isabelle Tavares to the second cohort of StoryReach Fellows!

Tavares is a multimedia journalist covering climate and health impacts on Latino communities in Michigan for @planetdetroit.org.

👉 bit.ly/StoryReach25

2025 Pulitzer Center StoryReach Midwest Fellow - Isabelle Tavares - Planet Detroit - Focus climate change's effect on Latino workforce

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GIJN em Português @gijnportugues.bsky.social · 3d

🔎🌿 Descubra dados ambientais ocultos!

Em 14 de outubro, participe deste webinar do @pulitzercenter.org para aprender sobre web scraping para investigações — sem necessidade de codificação.

Explore dados sobre desmatamento, poluição, licenças e muito mais:

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How Journalists Can Use Scraping Tools for Environmental Stories | Pulitzer Center

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Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter.org · 2d

With the #COP30 on the horizon, we are doubling down on our commitment to in-depth journalism as a crucial step for enhancing public understanding of climate change.

Explore Pulitzer Center's curation of journalism stories, events, and key resources!
👉 bit.ly/COP30pc

Pulitzer Center On The Road To COP30 Brasil - Amazonia Belem 2025

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Arena for Journalism in Europe @journalismarena.eu · 2d

🔎 The Forever Lobbying Project is shortlisted for the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism!

🧪 This investigation exposed an ongoing, orchestrated lobbying and disinformation campaign by the PFAS industry and its allies...

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Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter.org · 3d

Please join us in welcoming Andy Steiner to StoryReach Midwest Fellows!

Andy Steiner's work for @minnpost.bsky.social chronicles mental health and addiction in Minnesota.
👉 bit.ly/StoryReach25

2025 Pulitzer Center StoryReach Midwest Fellow - Andy Steiner - MinnPost - Focus: substance abuse treatment

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Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter.org · 4d

Join us in welcoming Jeff Oloizia to the cohort of StoryReach Midwest Fellows!

Oloizia is an award-winning journalist whose work explores education, culture, and human resilience.
👉 bit.ly/StoryReach25

2025 Pulitzer Center StoryReach Midwest Fellow - Jeff Oloiza - Madison Magazine - Focus: climate change and fish fries

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Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter.org · 4d

We are excited to welcome Michael Hawthorne to the second cohort of StoryReach initiative Fellows.

@scribeguy.bsky.social is a Pulitzer Prize finalist whose reporting for @chicagotribune.com has exposed environmental and public health threats across the Midwest.

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2025 Pulitzer Center StoryReach Midwest Fellow - Michael Hawthorne - Chicago Tribune - Focus: pollution in the Great Lakes

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Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter.org · 4d

We are thrilled to announce that Kelly Garcia is joining our StoryReach Midwest initiative as a 2025 Fellow!

@kellygarcia.bsky.social reports for @injusticewatch.org on stories about youth, prisons, and courts on Chicago’s southwest side.
👉 bit.ly/StoryReach25

2025 Pulitzer Center StoryReach Midwest Fellow - Kelly Garcia - Injustice Watch - Focus: abuse in juvenile detentions

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Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter.org · 4d

Please welcome Ben Felder to the StoryReach Midwest Fellowship!

@benfelder.bsky.social is the editor-in-chief for @investigatemidwest.bsky.social. He leads national investigations into corporate agriculture and food systems.
👉 bit.ly/StoryReach25

2025 Pulitzer Center StoryReach Midwest Fellow - Ben Felder - Investigate Midwest - Focus: cancer and pesticides

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Rosie Mestel @rosiemestel.bsky.social · 5d

Powerful piece by @richardastone.bsky.social about the rise in multidrug resistant bacteria in Ukraine's war-wounded and the threats the bugs also pose to non-soldiers and other countries. Very glad to see it in @knowablemag.bsky.social Thank you @pulitzercenter.org for funding Rich's travels. 🧪

Rachel Ehrenberg @rachelscience.bsky.social · 6d

Drug-resistant bacteria are spreading and strengthening amid the chaos of the war in Ukraine. Read this important piece by @richardastone.bsky.social (reported from the field w help from @pulitzercenter.org); edited by the terrific @rosiemestel.bsky.social

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The pernicious infections infiltrating Ukraine’s front lines

Doctors and scientists are waging a shadow war in the besieged nation: bacteria that are resistant to multiple antibiotics. The deadly bugs are now knocking on western Europe’s door.

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Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter.org · 5d

Join us in welcoming Max Blaisdell as a Fellow in the second cohort of the StoryReach initiative!

Blaisdell is an award-winning Chicago investigative reporter who focuses on government accountability and data journalism for @invisible.institute.
👉 bit.ly/StoryReach25

2025 Pulitzer Center StoryReach Midwest Fellow - Max Blaisdell - Invisible Institute - Focus: Police Accountability

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Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter.org · 5d

StoryReach Midwest draws inspiration from local outlets for their unique, audience-centered reporting approach and collaborative journalism.

It will prioritize engagement strategies that ensure impact from these reporting projects reaches communities.
👉 bit.ly/StoryReachUS

StoryReach is a response to the challenges facing local and regional outlets across the United States. Amid the surge of misinformation, fragmenting news consumption habits and declining civic health, the Pulitzer Center's news engagement accelerator empowers local newsrooms to connect with new and diverse audiences.

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Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter.org · 5d

We are excited to present the second cohort of the Pulitzer Center's StoryReach initiative.

Seven Fellows will spend a year reporting in-depth stories in the U.S. Midwest while also exploring engagement opportunities to expand story impact. 🧵
👉 bit.ly/StoryReach25

Introducing the Second Cohort of the StoryReach U.S. Fellowship - StoryReach Midwest - Our second cohort of seven StoryReach Fellows will focus on reporting and outreach in the Midwest

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Global Investigative Journalism Network @gijn.org · 5d

Across Vietnam and Laos, massive durian orchards have sprung up to feed neighboring China.

Here the @pulitzercenter.org looked into the hidden costs:

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Uncovering the Hidden Environmental and Human Costs of Laos’ Banana and Durian Boom

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Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter.org · 5d

The Mississippi River Delta was once a rich ecosystem, now it has been depleted and threatened by extreme weather. While some attempt to restore it, others wonder how much could be saved.

Story by grantees Lue Palmer and Minh Ha for @lailluminator.com. bit.ly/3KBClpw

Tough Choices Lie Ahead for Saving What’s Left of the Mississippi River Delta

NEW ORLEANS — The boat at the docks of Bayou Bienvenue was loaded with stacks of green bullrushes. Its passengers — three local coastal restoration experts, two young scientists and a few stalwart...

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Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter.org · 6d

European development banks are funding Cambodia's microloans industry, which operates at such high interest rates that people often are unable to pay them back.

Leila Goldstein & Sothyroth Phon investigate, for @ftm.eu, this crisis that has led to suicides. bit.ly/4nQoR8p

Deaths Spotlight Dark Side of Europe-Backed Microloans in Cambodia

Om dit rapport in het Nederlands te lezen, klik hier. Content warning: This article discusses suicide. In a country that is struggling with poverty and high illiteracy rates, Europe-funded firms are.....

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Rachel Ehrenberg @rachelscience.bsky.social · 6d

Drug-resistant bacteria are spreading and strengthening amid the chaos of the war in Ukraine. Read this important piece by @richardastone.bsky.social (reported from the field w help from @pulitzercenter.org); edited by the terrific @rosiemestel.bsky.social

knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...

The pernicious infections infiltrating Ukraine’s front lines

Doctors and scientists are waging a shadow war in the besieged nation: bacteria that are resistant to multiple antibiotics. The deadly bugs are now knocking on western Europe’s door.

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Christian Elliott @christianelliott.me · 6d

Honored to have made it into this always fantastic anthology as a "Notable" for my piece in Hakai Magazine (one of the last features the magazine published) about cold-water coral research in Chile. @pulitzercenter.org @biographic.bsky.social

Jaime Green @jaimealyse.bsky.social · 8d

Wrote a bit about this year's edition of The Best American Science and Nature Writing - and posted the Notables jaimealyse.beehiiv.com/p/basnw25

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Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter.org · 7d

With the #COP30 on the horizon, we are doubling down on our commitment to in-depth journalism as a crucial step for enhancing public understanding of climate change.

Explore our curation of journalism stories, events, and key resources!

👉 bit.ly/COP30pc

Pulitzer Center - On the Road to COP30| Amazonia Belém 2025

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Ankita M. Kumar @ankitakumar.bsky.social · 7d

I’m excited to announce that @kalwradio.bsky.social is hosting a special screening of Far from Home! Meet me at the KALW space in SF on October 7 for the screening and a discussion on refugee rights.

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Far From Home: An Afghan Refugee Story with filmmaker Ankita M. Kumar

KALW presents a screening of Far From Home and a discussion on refugee rights with filmmaker Ankita M. Kumar & Dr. Sedique Popal.

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Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter.org · 8d

For generations, the Indigenous Maasai have grazed livestock around Tanzania's Lake Natron.

Yet, for the past three years, Tanzanian authorities have been forcing them to relocate.

Story by Marco Simoncelli, Davide Lemmi, & Khalifa Said Rashid for @news.dw.com. bit.ly/46LqKMe

Tanzania’s Maasai People Facing Government Pressure To Leave

Tanzanian authorities have pushed Maasai relocations since 2022, sparking condemnation from rights groups. With elections nearing, will pressure shift or deepen? The Maasai, an ethnic group indigenous...

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Louisiana Illuminator @lailluminator.com · 8d

As local groups attempt to restore the region’s depleted hurricane buffer, there's a bigger discussion on just how much of the lower Mississippi Delta can be saved - or should be. Lue Palmer & Minh Ha report, thanks to @pulitzercenter.org lailluminator.com/2025/09/30/m...

Tough choices lie ahead for saving what's left of the Mississippi River Delta • Louisiana Illuminator

With limited sediment and funding, planners might have to make tough calls about which part of the lower Mississippi River Delta can realistically be restored — and which parts could be yielded to the...

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Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter.org · 8d

Year after year, the average temperature in Appalachian Virginia keeps rising, bringing greater risks of heat illness. Meanwhile, residents are struggling with escalating energy costs.

Story by @klburke.bsky.social & Melba Newsome for WVTF RADIO IQ & @climatecentral.org. bit.ly/46u4t6I

Energy Scarcity and Extreme Heat in Appalachian Virginia

This story was produced through a collaboration between Radio IQ and Climate Central, a nonadvocacy science and news group. Michelle Young and Jennifer Brady (Climate Central) contributed data...

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Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter.org · 9d

The Pulitzer Center just launched 'On the Road to #COP30'!

This special page explores a series of journalism stories, events, and key resources to unpack the climate issues that will be discussed at COP30.

Join us in meaningful climate conversations!
👉 bit.ly/COP30pc

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