Agenda

Most conference programming will take place in English. Live interpretations for conference sessions will be available in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and bahasa Indonesia unless otherwise noted.

Day 1

Thursday, June 9, 2022

9:00 AM-12:00 PM EDT

Check-in

10:00-11:15 AM EDT

Workshop: Investigating Rainforest Supply Chains

Featuring: Andrew Lehren, Manuela Andreoni, Karol Ilagan, Gustavo Faleiros

The Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN) is leading collaborative, transnational journalism to uncover the causes of the uninterrupted destruction of the planet's major tropical rainforests: the Amazon, the Congo Basin and Southeast Asia. In this workshop, Andrew Lehren from NBC's investigative unit, Manuela Andreoni, a reporter in Brazil for the New York Times, and Karol Ilagan from the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, will go behind the scenes of their reporting on powerful supply chains that connect remote areas of the Amazon and Southeast Asia with major U.S. and European carmakers and fashion brands.

The journalists will demonstrate how they used satellite images, traceability data, and public and confidential documents to follow commodities from cattle ranches and forest plantations through a host of intermediaries to major retailers in the U.S and Europe. They will address issues of source protection, data limitations and cross-disciplinary work.

This session will take place in English only.

11:15-11:30 AM EDT

"Lightning" Talk by Ian Urbina

“Lightning” talk by Ian Urbina, award-winning former New York Times correspondent and now Founder and Director of The Outlaw Ocean Project, a non-profit news organization that reports on environmental and human rights abuses at sea. He will detail the global reporting behind his upcoming podcast series.

This session will take place in English only.

12:00-2:15 PM EDT

Lunch and Plenary Session

Pulitzer Center Executive Director Jon Sawyer will open the conference with a general welcome and remarks on why climate is such a vital part of the Center’s work. The lunch plenary session will include colleagues from across the globe introducing the next exciting development in our rainforest activities: innovative education and outreach initiatives aimed at taking our rainforest journalism to the broadest possible audience. The plenary session will also include one of the student winners from our “Fighting Words” poetry project and representatives of our university Reporting Fellows program.

Featuring: Maria Darrigo, Vijitra Duangdee, Afy Malungu, Grenti Paramitha, Agostino Petroni, Flora Pereira, Jonatan Rodriguez, Jon Sawyer, Kem Sawyer

2:30-3:45 PM EDT

Concurrent Sessions (3)

Hot Times: Climate Change in Every Workplace

Labor and climate experts in some of the most affected countries discuss how and why climate coverage rarely focuses on work issues. They examine the issues and how best to report on the risks.

Featuring: Nikhil Dey, Andreas Flouris, Flora Pereira, Phaedra C. Pezzullo, Christine Spolar

Religion, COVID-19, and Deforestation in the Amazon

For centuries, incursions of different religions in the Amazon have raised issues around the conservation of identity, Indigenous beliefs and practices, and nature in the world’s largest rainforest. In this panel, Pulitzer Center grantees from Peru and Brazil will discuss the role of organized religion at a time of record-high deforestation, a devastating global pandemic, and the expansion of evangelical churches in the Amazon.

Featuring: Ivan Brehaut, Florence Goupil, Nelly Luna Amancio, Rodrigo Pedroso

Women on the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis

Around the world, women are often the first to suffer the negative impacts of climate change in their communities, from food and housing insecurity to cultural customs that deny women their independence. Women are also increasingly on the front lines of fighting for both climate and gender justice. Join a group of international journalists highlighting the relationship between climate change and women.

Featuring: Pablo Albarenga, Daniela Silva, Audrey Tan, Neha Wadekar

4:00-5:15 PM EDT

Concurrent Sessions (3)

Making It Work: Revealing the Climate/Labor Story

How can editors and reporters frame stories around climate change and labor risks—and how can they get buy-in to begin with? Do newsrooms need a team to cover climate change with an eye on economic costs? Is there a way to examine the divide between historically industrial economies and emerging economies?

Featuring: Jessica Brice, Hannah Fairfield, Syeda Rizwana Hasan, Christine Spolar, Elijah Wolfson

Spirituality, Culture, and Climate

What are the intersections between spirituality, culture, and climate? How does the notion of stewardship differ across regions, and how is it similar? Journalists from around the world consider these questions in the context of their reporting.

Featuring: Alessandro Cinque, Klas Lundström, Josephine Molavi

Women on the Move: Teaching Gender, Climate, and Migration

The Pulitzer Center is dedicated to connecting teachers and students with underreported news stories and the journalists who cover them. "Women on the Move," a National Geographic feature, documents the life-changing and often perilous journeys of eight female migrants through photography and print journalism. Join journalists and educators to learn how the Center amplified this project in classrooms around the country.

Featuring: Aurora Almendral, Indira Lakshmanan, Tania Mohammed, Sushmita Jaya Mukherjee

5:30-7:30 PM EDT

Reception

Join us for drinks and socializing!

Day 2

Friday, June 10, 2022

8:00-9:00 AM EDT

Check-in and Breakfast

9:15-10:00 AM EDT

Welcome & Plenary Session

Featuring: Wahyu Dhyatmika, Eliane Brum, David Akana, Marina Walker Guevara

10:00-11:15 AM EDT

Collaborating Against Climate Change

Climate change, supply chains, and deforestation are regional and global issues in nature. Such topics require cross-border and multidisciplinary collaboration to produce more comprehensive and impactful reports. The panelists, who have worked on highly collaborative projects and investigations, will share their experience, lessons, and tools on how to forge effective reporting on climate issues.

Featuring: Francesc Badia i Dalmases, Karol Ilagan, Kharishar Kahfi, Andrew Lehren

11:30-12:45 PM EDT

Modeling Connected Coastlines / Bringing Stories Home

This panel brings together some of our most exciting local news partners to explore how they've reported on the community impact of large-scale climate issues, such as sea-level rise and ocean temperature. This session will also delve into stakeholder engagement strategies, including K-12 education.

Featuring: Cynthia Barnett, Marcelo Juaregui-Volpe, Brian Keane, Melba Newsome, Jackson Potter, Tegan Wendland

12:45-2:30 PM EDT

Lunch Break

Boxed lunches will be available for attendees, or feel free to get lunch on your own!

2:45-4:00 PM EDT

Concurrent Sessions (3)

Innovative Investigations that Inspire

Artificial intelligence, satellite imagery, geospatial analysis, and other technologies have been key elements in some of the star projects supported by the Pulitzer Center. Journalists behind those projects will be on this panel to share their methodologies, tools, and technology partners that will inspire your next journalism project.

Featuring: Kuek Ser Kuang Keng, Jelter Meers, Jacopo Ottaviani, Joseph Poliszuk

Anthropocene Visual Storytelling

How should we document our current relationship with the Earth? From the Outer Banks to Brazil, photojournalists and filmmakers on this panel share how they see the climate through a variety of lenses.

Featuring: David Abel, Lalo de Almeida, Justin Cook, Lauren Petracca

Communicating Climate: Education and Outreach Strategies

The climate crisis is a complex topic. If not well communicated, it can mean everything and nothing at the same time. One can feel easily overwhelmed, frightened, or even paralyzed reading or listening about it. This panel brings together a series of powerful messengers who have created outreach and education strategies to decode the climate narrative, creatively reaching new audiences' minds and hearts.

Featuring: Eliza Barclay, Emma Johnson, Sushmita Jaya Mukherjee, Flora Pereira, Marielle Ramires, Eric Terena

4:15-5:30 PM EDT

Concurrent Sessions (3)

Beyond Climate Justice: Rainforest Reporting and Accountability

Climate justice, rainforest reporting, and accountability are closely intertwined. How is climate action different or similar across regions, and why is it crucial to report on? What are the main resources and approaches reporters use? Who is accountable for protecting and preserving rainforests? Journalists from around the world consider these questions as they share their reporting, the perceived impacts on communities and ecosystems, and how to create awareness that promotes change.

Featuring: Elaíze Farias, Dhana Kencana, Edilma Prada Céspedes, Jonathan Watts

Full Circle: Reporting the Climate Crisis Across the Arctic

Communities from around the Arctic Circle have been among the earliest to feel the impacts of climate change. Indigenous communities have been disproportionately affected, yet their voices have remained underrepresented in most news media outlets. Meanwhile, closer to home, it can be easy to ignore how changes far off in the Arctic impact our own environments. How do we tell these stories, and whose voices are heard?

Featuring: Tony Bartelme, Hal Bernton, Brett Simpson, Alice Qannik Glenn

Supercharge Your Environmental Stories with Data and Visuals

Data can be both a source and a tool to tell environmental stories, and data visualization can greatly make a story more engaging and digestible. Join grantees and fellows to discuss how they've used both data and visualizations to enhance their environmental stories.

Featuring: Isacco Chiaf, Patchar Duangklad, Yao-Hua Law, Annika McGinnis, Hyury Potter

6:00-9:00 PM EDT

Ballroom Reception

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