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The local news crisis is real. The Pulitzer Center’s StoryReach Fellows are meeting the moment. Introducing our 2025 Fellows: 7 journalists dedicated to amplifying community voices and impactful reporting. 👉 bit.ly/4nxG9qt
One day left to apply for the @pulitzercenter's free workshop for U.S reporters who want to learn how to amplify their climate reporting with short videos for TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube Shorts. pulitzercenter.org/blog/appl…
Strong visuals and storytelling by Pulitzer Center grantees Christopher Tyree and Karen Kasmauski.
Stay tuned— still more to come from this illuminating Virginia Center for Investigative Reporting special series.
dataviz.whro.org/black-lung/…
Only three days left to apply for this Pulitzer Center digital storytelling workshop!
pulitzercenter.org/blog/new-…
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A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
China isn’t just financing the developing world anymore. New research by AidData reveals that 75%+ of Beijing’s overseas lending now targets upper-middle- and high-income countries—including the US, UK, Japan & Australia > aiddata.org/blog/chinas-mass…
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At #COP30, we shared the latest Amazon Mining Watch update and findings with journalists, showing how satellites, AI, and regional collaboration are exposing the scale of illegal mining across the Amazon. Explore this tool!
👉 bit.ly/AMWpc
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The U.S. Department of Defense has taken down and reissued a promo video on military drone advancements after Metallica raised a copyright complaint.
petapixel.com/2025/07/15/met…
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The National Weather Service seeks to fill 155 "critical" vacancies ahead of Hurricane Season, through internal transfers between offices. The step illustrates how depleted the agency's ranks are at particular posts around the U.S. cnn.com/2025/05/14/weather/n…
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Fed Chair Powell: Cutting discretionary federal spending will not fix US debt problem reut.rs/4ltF7uZ
Must-read reporting by The Tampa Bay Times on pollution-related threats to Florida manatees.
Hundreds of Florida waterways are dangerously polluted, and many are getting worse. A Times investigation found more than 89,000 acres of seagrass, a key manatee food source, have vanished.
Read Part 1 of Wasting Away, supported by @pulitzercenter: project.tampabay.com/investi…
Applications are now open for StoryReach Midwest, the second cohort of the Pulitzer Center's StoryReach Fellowship. Send your ideas for ambitious reporting projects that include creative ideas for audience outreach. Learn more! bit.ly/StoryRMW
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The Pulitzer Center is excited to announce StoryReach Midwest, the second cohort of the StoryReach Fellowship.
Now accepting applications from freelance and staff reporters for impactful and audience-centered projects.
Learn more! 🧵
👉bit.ly/StoryRMW
*Apply by March 31
ALT Pulitzer Center - StoryReach Midwest - Apply to join the second cohort of StoryReach U.S. Fellows - Journalists hosted by local or regional news outlets in the Midwest U.S. are invited to apply for a fellowship that combines breakthrough reporting and effective audience-centred outreach - Due March 31, 2025
Thrilled to see Pulitzer Center fellow @AlecLuhn on the list of 2024 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award Winners for his Center-supported reporting in Scientific American article, "Why Are Alaska's Rivers Turning Orange?"
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🚨BREAKING: Louisiana health care workers and advocates sue state, claiming misoprostol law violates constitution lailluminator.com/2024/10/31… @IlluminatorLA @pulitzercenter
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Millions in Oakland's lead settlement funds have remained unspent for years, despite the dire crisis affecting Latino immigrant neighborhoods. We reported on the bureaucratic bottleneck that led to years of inaction. eltimpano.org/health/toxic-i…
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"Supercharged hurricanes are no longer outliers, freak disasters or storms of the century. Fossil fuel pollution has made them a fixture of life around the world, and they are going to get worse — with millions of people in their cross hairs." nytimes.com/2024/10/09/opini…
Ouk Mao, who bravely reported on deforestation in the Phnom Chum Rok Sat forest for, is now accused of the very crime he exposed. Activists say Cambodia's courts are weaponizing charges to silence critics. The fight for #PressFreedom continues. news.mongabay.com/2024/09/re…
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I’m super pumped to say I’ll be a @pulitzercenter fellow covering marine carbon removal/geoengineering for @sciam this year.
Feel free to send me tips here or to alecluhn [at] protonmail [dot] com!
Welcome 2024 Ocean Reporting Network Fellow Alec Luhn.
@AlecLuhn will examine how companies and governments are proceeding with controversial marine geoengineering techniques and blue carbon credit schemes for @sciam. bit.ly/ORN2024
