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December 03, 2020 | BuzzFeed
Inside a Xinjiang Detention Camp
In a lush countryside idyll known for its horse farms and fields of yellow flowers, China built a system of total control.
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December 03, 2020 | Scroll.in
In Photos: COVID-19 Lockdown Has Disrupted Lives of Bhopal Children Who Bear Effects of Gas Tragedy
Rohit Jain captures the struggle and spirit of the children whose families were exposed to the disaster on December 2, 1984, and its after-effects.
December 03, 2020 | Science Magazine
‘Malicious and Misconceived.’ Indian Vaccine Producer Hits Back at Complaint From Trial Volunteer
An Indian man is suing one of the world’s largest vaccine manufacturers after falling seriously ill during a trial of a COVID-19 vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca.
December 02, 2020 | Macaranga
Forest Use: The Public Wants A Say
Juggling between development and environmental conservation is difficult when it comes to forest-use. But there are ways to be more inclusive.
November 30, 2020 | Macaranga
Revenue and Power Drive Forest Area Changes
To understand forest-use dynamics in Peninsular Malaysia, one must know how state governments – the sole authority on land use – perceive forests.
November 30, 2020 | NPR
Philippine Survivor Recounts Her Struggle as a 'Comfort Woman' in Japan
A survivor recounts her experience in the Imperial Japanese Army's institutionalized system of sexual enslavement during World War II and her struggle to win recognition and reparations.
November 30, 2020 | Macaranga
Forest Loss: Under Whose Watch?
How much forest loss is too much? Are the drivers of this loss the same as in the past? In Forest Files, Macaranga examines the dynamics and mechanics of forest-use changes in Malaysia.
November 27, 2020 | Macaranga
Excision: The Main Threat To Forests in Peninsular Malaysia
Decades ago, rampant logging looked set to decimate forests in Malaysia. That is no longer the case, but a less familiar force is driving forest change – one over which state governments have full control.
November 25, 2020 | Science Magazine
India Needs More Transparency in Its COVID-19 Vaccine Trials, Critics Say
The nation now has five vaccine candidates in various stages of human testing. But the design, conduct, and regulation of these trials is often opaque, said researchers, bioethicists, journalists, lawyers, and others.
November 25, 2020 | Nikkei Asia
For Kashmir's Pregnant Gujjars, Reaching Hospital Is the Hard Part
The only way to the maternity ward is usually on a man's shoulders.
November 19, 2020 | Science Magazine
More People Are Getting COVID-19 Twice, Suggesting Immunity Wanes Quickly in Some
Reinfections hint that immunity against COVID-19 may be fragile and wane relatively quickly, with implications not just for the risks facing recovered patients, but also for how long future vaccines might protect people.
November 18, 2020 | Nikkei Asia
Kashmir's Tribal Women Fight the Stigma of Birth Control
Married women in the village say it's difficult to talk about such issues within their community.
Bhopal Gas Survivors in the Face of COVID-19
On 3rd December 1984, Bhopal was devastated by a leak of poison gas. With 60 percent of survivors already suffering from respiratory illness, how are adult survivors being affected by COVID-19?
Women and Reproductive Rights in Kashmir's Tribal Community
The women of a nomadic tribal Muslim group in Kashmir often lack access to reproductive health and rights.
The Threat of Hydropower To the Kayan River Ecosystem (bahasa Indonesia)
The construction of a hydropower mega-project in the Kayan River, North Kalimantan, has the potential to disrupt the ecosystem in the areas.
Survival in the High Seas
Filipino sailors understand the mystic lure of the ocean. They also know its dangers firsthand. These are their stories of survival.
A Distant Peace: Voices From Rakhine State, Myanmar
This project explores intensifying armed conflict between the Arakan Army and Myanmar military through the voices of affected civilians, within the context of COVID-19 and national elections.
Built To Last
A BuzzFeed News investigation based on thousands of satellite images reveals a vast, growing infrastructure for long-term detention and incarceration.
Meditation, Medication, Molecularization? Examining the Remediation of Cambodia's "Mental Health Crisis"
This work explores complexities vis-à-vis the “mental health crisis” in Cambodia, drawing from transcultural psychiatry, medical anthropology, and communicated through the lens of solutions journalism.
Islamophobia and Coronavirus in India
Some religious gatherings worldwide turned into coronavirus-spreading events. In India, members of an Islamic group are facing prosecutions for intentionally spreading the virus.
The Road Mine Scandal in Hutan Harapan
The construction of a mining road in Hutan Harapan is a conspiracy between Peter Sondakh, owner Rajawali Group and the government. Road construction causes deforestation.
Korporasi Api (The Fire Corporation)
The fires that destroyed 1.53 million hectares of Indonesia’s forests and land in 2019 were triggered by the expansion of forest product and oil palm plantations and industrial activity.
Buried Hopes: Stories from Kachin's Jade Mines
A multifaceted look at jade mining in Kachin State, Myanmar, where despite longstanding calls for reform, July saw another deadly landslide in the weakly-regulated industry.
Himalayan Communities Respond to the Threat of COVID-19
Himalayan highlanders remain concerned despite the lack of reported cases of COVID-19.
July 29, 2020 | Meet the Journalist
Behind the Story: Life After Jihad
What happens when a woman looking for companionship or love online instead finds jihad? Pulitzer Center grantee and 2014 Miel Fellow Ana P. Santos travels to Indonesia to find out.
June 22, 2020 | Meet the Journalist
Behind the Story: China's Changing Yellow River
China’s Yellow River continues to struggle for its survival after decades of unchecked development. Today, that fight has escalated to its headwaters on the Tibetan Plateau. Here, at 4,500 meters, patches of degraded land have connected to form vast deserts.
June 18, 2020 | Meet the Journalist
Behind the Story: Climate Supertrees
Eliza Barclay explains how the Vox reporting team focuses on key superpowers of three tree species in three rainforests to convey their unique ecological roles and the urgency of protecting the them.
June 02, 2020 | Meet the Journalist
Behind the Story: Malaysia's Last Hunter-Gatherers
In June 2019, a mysterious illness spread like wildfire claiming 16 lives within two weeks in a community of 186 Batek, Malaysia’s last hunter-gatherers. In the end, only 20 were left unaffected.
May 15, 2020 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Rachel Nuwer
Tigers, elephants, and other large, charismatic animals are much beloved in the west but, as Pulitzer Center grantee Rachel Nuwer explains, they pose a dire threat to the livelihoods and lives of people who must live with them on a daily basis.
November 25, 2019 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Sim Chi Yin
Photographer Sim Chi Yin speaks on the thinking and impulse behind making the latest chapter of her ongoing project "Shifting Sands," a visual investigation of the global depletion of construction sand.
November 22, 2019 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Leslie Tai
A Chinese surrogacy agent’s business in southern California has become a one-stop shop for wealthy Chinese couples seeking to hire American surrogates to have their babies.
August 27, 2019 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalists: Sara Hylton and Alice Su
From sheltering the vulnerable to registering women to vote, women across Pakistan are pushing up again patriarchal customs and fighting for their rights despite the immense dangers they face.
May 08, 2019 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Xyza Cruz Bacani
Photojournalist Xyza Cruz Bacani discusses climate refugees in Indonesia who become vulnerable to exploitation by human traffickers.
May 07, 2019 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalists: Adam Willis and Eloisa Lopez
Meet Adam Willis and Eloisa Lopez, reporting on the Catholic church in the Philippines and Duterte's war on drugs.
April 29, 2019 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Emiko Jozuka
Emiko Jozuka investigates the social, economic, and political consequences of Japan's rapidly-shrinking population.
April 29, 2019 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Saul Elbein
What happens when ISIS captures your city.
November 24, 2020 | General news
Pulitzer Center Announces Rainforest Investigations Network
The Pulitzer Center is pleased to announce the launch of the Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN), a major new initiative that seeks to harness investigative reporting and cross-border collaboration to tackle stories at the intersection of climate change, corruption, and governance in the world’s three main tropical rainforest regions: Amazon, Congo Basin, and Southeast Asia.
November 23, 2020 | General news
Grantee Phillip Martin and Dr. Suraj Yengde Discuss Caste Discrimination in the U.S.
This Campus Consortium webinar collaboration with Georgetown University’s Berkley Center looked at the ways casteism follows immigrants from South Asia and permeates American society.
November 20, 2020 | Awards
Pulitzer Center-Supported Vox ‘Supertrees’ Series Receives National Press Club Honorable Mention
The multimedia projects profiled three species of trees from the world’s largest rainforests that help stave off global environmental disaster.
November 13, 2020 | General news
Call for Proposals Opens for Inaugural Cohort of Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Investigations Fellows
The 10 journalists will harness data, collaboration, and investigative reporting to tackle stories at the intersection of deforestation, corruption, and governance. The Rainforest Investigations Network will be coordinated by award-winning Brazilian journalist Gustavo Faleiros.
November 06, 2020 | General news
Webinar Gives Tips on Pitching Stories to Rainforest Journalism Fund
Members of the Southeast Asia RJF Advisory Committee shared insights about what makes a strong pitch for RJF’s funding opportunities.
November 05, 2020 | General news
A Conversation with Maria Ressa at Double Exposure
Pulitzer Center Senior Editor Boyoung Lim spoke to journalist Maria Ressa about keeping her “eyes wide open” while facing government intimidation and online harassment
October 26, 2020 | General news
Behind the Story: Fishbein on the Power of Local Reporting Partners in Myanmar
Grantee Emily Fishbein discusses the challenges and strategies behind reporting on Myanmar remotely during the pandemic.
October 22, 2020 | General news
Rainforest Journalism Fund Website Launches with Tools for Journalists
Multilingual site supports all five languages spoken in rainforest regions.
October 09, 2020 | Awards
‘Supertrees’ Series Wins OJA Award
The Pulitzer Center-supported Vox project profiles three tree species vital to the global ecosystem
September 24, 2020 | Project news, Awards
Drone Photo Awards 2020 Recognize Pulitzer Center Grantee
Sean Gallagher received “Highly Commended” acknowledgement for his short film Cambodia Burning.
September 04, 2020 | Education news
In Their Shoes: Elementary Students Explore Stories of Forced Migration
Since April, over 120 elementary students have learned about how migrants and refugees who are children learn and go to school around the world with the Pulitzer Center's In Their Shoes workshop
September 04, 2020 | Project news, Awards
Pulitzer-Supported Vox Series on ‘Supertrees’ Named OJA Finalist
The project focuses on three climate superheroes under threat of deforestation.
August 17, 2020 | All Grades
A Global Pandemic: Comparing, Contrasting, and Connecting to International Responses to COVID-19
In this lesson, students will analyze the challenges facing communities in Kenya and Hong Kong in stopping COVID-19 and compare their responses to other places' around the world.
August 03, 2020 | All Grades
How to Describe Places to Tell Under-Reported Stories: From Drafting to Editing
In this lesson, students will hear from a journalist who uses writing skills to describe under-reported place, and practice the same skills in original writing.
April 29, 2020 | Elementary
In Their Shoes [Workshop]: Understanding Forced Displacement Around the World
In this workshop, elementary students will learn what it means to be a refugee, explore how four child migrants around the world go to school, and reflect on common threads between their lives.
April 15, 2020 | All Grades
Under-reported Stories of Resilience: Printable Lessons for Students
As students across the world learn remotely, Pulitzer Center is committed to supporting educators with engaging resources that are online and easily printable.
March 18, 2020 | Middle School, High School
Analyzing North Koreans’ Flight to Freedom on the ‘Underground Railroad’
Students analyze reporting recounting a North Korean woman and her children's journey to a new life in South Korea, understand the factors that pushed her to flee, and encounter challenges she faced.
August 16, 2019 | Elementary
Finding a Common Thread: How People Around the World Get Their Food
Engage with the challenges and solutions that communities around the world are grappling with when trying to access vital food sources.
August 15, 2019 | Middle School, High School
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats: China Begins the Next Genome Revolution
Will China’s decision to heavily invest in genome editing of crops payoff in the long run?
July 31, 2019 | All Grades
Toolkit for Your Next Discussion on Conflict and Peacebuilding
Conflict—difficult to define, but keenly felt. Explore these stories about under-reported aspects of conflict and peacebuilding.
July 24, 2019 | All Grades
Toolkit for Your Next Discussion on the Environment and Climate Change
Climate change—an issue that affects us all, no matter where we are in the world. This guide will help begin a conversation about today's under-reported stories surrounding our global crisis.
April 09, 2019 | Elementary, Middle School, High School
Fighting Climate Change with Community Action
This lesson introduces students to some of the ways people around the world are fighting climate change in their own communities, and challenges them to take action themselves.
February 27, 2019 | Middle School, High School
Women and Nonviolent Resistance
This lesson plan uses resources about women around the world leading nonviolent movements to fight against violence and injustice.
January 29, 2019 | High School, College
Depicting War: Examining the Conflict in Yemen
Students explore reporting on the Yemeni war and consider: What forms can war take, and how does it affect civilians directly and indirectly? How can journalists report on a conflict well?
