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Covering Conflict, in Ukraine and Beyond. PBS NewsHour, Showing the Way
In an interview broadcast on PBS NewsHour last week, grantee Simon Ostrovsky asked Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s foreign minister, if his government was willing to make territorial concessions to Russia in order to achieve a peace settlement. Kuleba’s response was remarkably explicit, and grimly determined:
“No, Ukraine will not make territorial concessions to Russia in order to achieve a peace settlement,” he said. “I’m copy-pasting your question in my answer to avoid any misunderstandings or double interpretations.”
Ostrovsky noted that many observers believe Ukraine will have to cede some territory to end the war. Kuleba held his ground, noting that many of those same observers had made the same arguments in 2014, when Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, seized the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine and then Crimea.
“Make a concession here, and Putin will step back,” Kuleba said, referring to the
Pulitzer Center Colleagues and Grantees Win Best in Business Awards. On Thursday, April 7, 2022, the Association for Business Journalists’ Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) announced the winners of the 27th annual Best in Business Awards, which honor “excellence in business journalism,” the group says on its website. Among the honorees were several Pulitzer Center and Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN) colleagues, Fellows, and grantees.
In the category recognizing excellence in business reporting on energy and natural resources, the RIN team won in the large division for what judges acclaimed as an “exceptional collaboration.” In addition to the RIN team and Fellows, winners included collaborators from NBC News Investigations and The New York Times. Together, they produced a series of projects on how U.S. consumers’ supply chains have origins in rainforest destruction in Brazil, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
Judges mentioned how the use of