Karoshi: A Deep Look Into Japan’s Unforgiving Working Culture
Dec 8, 2023 · On December 25, 2015, 24-year-old Matsuri Takahashi died by suicide, jumping from her company dormitory. Takahashi was an employee of Japan’s largest advertising agency, Dentsu Inc., notorious for its rigorous working environment.
Applications Open: Fall 2024 Teacher Fellowship ... - Pulitzer Center
Aug 14, 2024 · Applications Open: Fall 2024 Teacher Fellowship, "Making Connections to Global Health Stories". From climate change to social justice, Pulitzer Center journalism cuts to the core of the world’s biggest challenges by exploring key issues that connect us all. Over the past four years, the over 100 educators who have participated in our Teacher Fellowship program have extended the impact of ...
Leila Molana-Allen - Pulitzer Center
Sep 3, 2024 · Leila Molana-Allen is a roving Special Correspondent for PBS NewsHour, reporting from across the wider Middle East and Africa. She has been based in
'Children Are Different:' Sentencing Juveniles as Adults
Aug 30, 2019 · Recent legislative reforms and judicial decisions may signal that states are beginning to scale back on “tough on crime” policies by changing how courts treat juveniles in the criminal justice system. Tough on crime policies enacted in the 1980s and 1990s increased the number of juveniles charged as adults—viewing them not as children or delinquents but as fully formed criminals. But ...
'Electoral Frontiers': Political Engagement in the Digital Age
Oct 24, 2024 · Part of the Electoral Frontiers webinar series, which includes "Combating Disenfranchisement and Building Transparency" and "Democracy's Challenge to Rising Authoritarianism." Curatorial social media algorithms, large language models, facial recognition, and deepfakes have emerged as powerful forces with far-reaching, and often unforeseen, implications on democratic processes and civil ...
What You Should Know About Book Bans: Frequently Asked …
Sep 25, 2023 · What You Should Know About Book Bans: Frequently Asked Questions. During the first six months of the 2022-2023 academic year, states across the country banned a total of 1,477 books. The continuous implementation of book bans nationwide leave many Americans wondering how their schools, libraries, and children will be affected. The following frequently asked questions, answers, and resources ...
Explained: Why Haiti & the Dominican Republic Are at Odds
Sep 29, 2023 · Historian Lissette Acosta Corniel, an assistant professor of Latin American Studies at the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), explains the rifts that tore apart Ayiti Kiskeya O Boyo (aka Hispaniola).
Reporting Grants & Fellowships - Pulitzer Center
The Pulitzer Center provides support to freelance and staff journalists to pursue underreported enterprise stories in two ways: Reporting grants: Funding for in-depth journalism projects; Fellowship programs: Funding; training; data and research support; and a cohort experience with journalists pursuing similar in-depth or investigative stories; These …
The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
2020 Annual Report. Support for PBS NewsHour on multiple projects, including Simon Ostrovsky’s on-the-ground reports about political upheaval in Belarus and a war over Nagorno-Karabakh, which few Western outlets covered.Marcia Biggs produced a timely series on political turmoil in Venezuela, while grantees Nadja Drost and Bruno Federico contributed a remarkable two-part series on the ...
‘A Crisis Unfolding Before Our Eyes’: The African ... - Pulitzer Center
Jul 17, 2023 · The temporary fishing restrictions declared by the DFFE in September 2022 on purse-seine fishing (a commercial fishing method that uses large nets) in the waters that surround Cape Town’s largest penguin colonies affect defined areas around Dassen Island, Robben Island, Stony Point, Dyer Island, St. Croix Island, and Bird Island.