Hyury Potter. Born and raised in the Amazon region, freelance reporter Hyury Potter writes about corruption and the environment from Brazil. He is the author of the Mined Amazon project, a real-time map published by InfoAmazonia that tracks illegal mining requests within Indigenous lands and protected areas. The project was supported in 2020 by the Amazon Rainforest Journalism Fund and the Pulitzer Center. In 2019, it won a Journalism Innovation Grant awarded by the International Center for Journalists and The Wall Street Journal. In 2022, he started his second year as an RIN fellow. In 2021, he published investigations about illegal mining and clandestine airfields in collaboration with outlets in the U.S. and Belgium. He has previously worked for Deutsche Welle Brazil, in Bonn, Germany, and several other newsrooms in Brazil.
From Climate Reporting to Climate Engagement (#COP27). The panelists will highlight the importance of journalism, education, and cross-sectoral outreach efforts in tackling climate change, derived from the multiformat rainforest journalism by Pulitzer Center Fellows and grantees on rampant deforestation, the absence of Indigenous community safeguarding, as well as ground-level developments related to carbon trading. This session showcases the power of rainforest journalism to inspire engagement and action by educational communities and civil society groups to address the climate crisis in the global south, accelerating actions of the climate goals, as well as revealing social injustice in the process of climate change reduction. About the speakers: Bagja Hidayat is a Fellow with the Pulitzer Center's Rainforest Investigations Network. Since 2001, Bagja Hidayat has worked as managing editor for the investigations desk at Tempo, a leading political and economic magazine in Indonesi
From Climate Reporting to Climate Engagement (#COP27). The panelists will highlight the importance of journalism, education, and cross-sectoral outreach efforts in tackling climate change, derived from the multiformat rainforest journalism by Pulitzer Center Fellows and grantees on rampant deforestation, the absence of Indigenous community safeguarding, as well as ground-level developments related to carbon trading. This session showcases the power of rainforest journalism to inspire engagement and action by educational communities and civil society groups to address the climate crisis in the global south, accelerating actions of the climate goals, as well as revealing social injustice in the process of climate change reduction. About the speakers: Bagja Hidayat is a Fellow with the Pulitzer Center's Rainforest Investigations Network. Since 2001, Bagja Hidayat has worked as managing editor for the investigations desk at Tempo, a leading political and economic magazine in Indonesi
2021: A Year in Stories. In 2021, the Pulitzer Center’s vibrant and resilient global community of journalists, educators, and partners met challenge after challenge with courage, inventiveness, and compassion. Our grantees.