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This plan includes lessons connected to the work of journalists that presented at the University of Chicago Summer Teacher Institute in June 2017.
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Project
A Woman's Crime and Punishment
When unmarried sex is outlawed, pregnancy out of wedlock is proof of a crime. Women are jailed—along...
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Pulitzer Center Update
'The Execution Beat' Short Doc Wins Regional Emmy Award
Longtime Pulitzer Center grantee Jason Motlagh's short documentary, "The Execution Beat," won the a...
June 14, 2017
![I was drawn to the Beichuan earthquake memorial because I knew it would be strange but I was not fully prepared for the level of mass tourism on the site. According to a local tourism official I spoke with, fully 3 million domestic tourists a year visit the site. Seeing so many middle-class vacationers in their trendy athleisure clothing with their cameras out walking through a destroyed city was jarring but it was fully intended. The local government hoped that disaster tourism would be a major economic…](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/06-21-17/beichuan_tourists.jpg.webp?h=5d8d1d0b&itok=2QlN3bFD "I was drawn to the Beichuan earthquake memorial because I knew it would be strange but I was not fully prepared for the level of mass tourism on the site. According to a local tourism official I spoke with, fully 3 million domestic tourists a year visit the site. Seeing so many middle-class vacationers in their trendy athleisure clothing with their cameras out walking through a destroyed city was jarring but it was fully intended. The local government hoped that disaster tourism would be a major economic development tool in the region. Despite the grand plans, however, most tourists visit the ruins as a day trip and stay in larger cities farther away or continue on into the mountains to visit Laojunshan National Park (aka "China's Yellowstone"). Image by Daniel Brook. China, 2015.")
