Pulitzer Center Update November 29, 2012
The Story Behind the Story: Global Goods, Local Costs Discussion at GW
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The Sea of Cortez is—or was—a vast and lush underwater paradise. Industrial fishing operations are...
Where did the cocoa in your chocolate bar come from? Who mined for the gold in your wedding band? What ocean did the fish on your plate come from?
These are all questions that Pulitzer Center photographers Dominic Bracco II, Nadia Shira Cohen, Peter DiCampo, Jason Motlagh and Larry Price sought to answer with their projects on various commodities from around the world.
In these videos, the photographers reflect on their reporting while discussing the challenges of telling the complex stories of the people behind the commodities.
The panel discussion titled The Story Behind the Story: Global Goods, Local Costs was a FotoWeek DC event sponsored by the George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs and the Pulitzer Center in association with the GW Program Board.
In Ivory Coast—the world’s top cocoa producer—cocoa farmers bore the brunt of a civil war that...
America's appetite for inexpensive shrimp from Southeast Asia is growing, but at what cost? In...
Tiny children and teens toil in the gold mines of the Philippines and Indonesia. A risky, often...
