The Global Shining Light Award honors watchdog journalism in developing or transitioning countries, carried out under threat or in perilous conditions and the 2023 competition attracted a record 419 applications from 84 countries with winners coming from Nigeria, South Africa, Venezuela, Bangladesh, North Macedonia, and Ukraine.
A day of AI-oriented events discussed how the technology can help newsrooms, how investigations have revealed the impact of artificial intelligence on communities, and how journalists can move beyond narratives of hype or despair.
Using Artificial Intelligence To Protect the Amazon: Challenges and Solutions for the Future of Our Forest. Join the Pulitzer Center's Amazonía Lab for a webinar that will explore how the adoption of technological tools by journalists and Amazonian communities has become a vital front in understanding, connecting, and taking action to protect our forests. We will discover surprising cases of how artificial intelligence and satellite monitoring are being used to develop new models for detecting deforestation and mining, demonstrating that social appropriation of technology is fundamental in the defense of #OurAmazon. Speakers: Manuela Andreoni: A 2021-2022 Rainforest Investigations Network Fellow from Brazil. Her investigations have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker Magazine, BBC’s Panorama, Univision, Agência Pública, and others. Her project with the Rainforest Investigations Network, The Brazilian Amazon Is Up for Grabs. Who Profits? examines the syste