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Pulitzer Center Update October 8, 2018

Sebastian Meyer Takes Over Pulitzer Center Instagram

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Congo (drc)
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Inside the Kasulo mine, which is owned by the DRC government and run by China’s Congo Dongfang International Mining, or CDM. Image by Sebastian Meyer. Democratic Republic of Congo, 2018.
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The Race for Cobalt

Vivienne Walt and Sebastian Meyer traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo, home to most of the...

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A miner pushes a bicycle piled with sacks of cobalt from a mining pit to the depot inside the CDM (Congo DongFang International Mining) Kasulo mine. Image by Sebastian Meyer. Congo, 2018.

Photographer Sebastian Meyer will take over Pulitzer Center's Instagram account during the week of October 8. His recent reporting project with journalist Vivienne Walt, "The Race for Cobalt," takes a close look at the production of cobalt, a mineral crucial to producing cellphone and electric car batteries, in Congo. He will share photos of working conditions in cobalt mines via our Instagram account. Follow his reporting here. 

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