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  1. President Obama will visit Burma next week, the first US president to ever do so. Learn about this rapidly changing nation that is home to one of the most oppressed people groups in the world, scores of natural resources, and a hidden war. ...
    Read more here http://bit.ly/Burma3.

    Burmese soldiers resting under a tree in the grounds of the Pagan Temple complex while they guard a footpath during the visit of General Than Shwe. Image by Gary Knight. Burma, 2012.
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    Photo: President Obama will visit Burma next week, the first US president to ever do so. Learn about this rapidly changing nation that is home to one of the most oppressed people groups in the world, scores of natural resources, and a hidden war. Read more here http://bit.ly/Burma3.

Burmese soldiers resting under a tree in the grounds of the Pagan Temple complex while they guard a footpath during the visit of General Than Shwe. Image by Gary Knight. Burma, 2012.
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    •  Friends in China, friends with friends in China, we (PRI's The World and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting) need your help! We're looking for photos of cigarette and tobacco advertising in or near schools. (You can send photos by email, links, here on FB -- whatever is easiest.)
      November 15 at 11:17am
    • Jake Naughton
       DC!! Come join some awesome photogs as they talk about their work with Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Featuring Dominic Bracco II, Nadia Shira Cohen, Jason Motlagh, Peter DiCampo and Larry Price. Plus, the reception will have some great food. RSVP Required: http://globalgoods-fotodc.eventbrite.com/ cc: Gina Martin, Lexey Swall, Janna Dotschkal, Logan Mb, Joshua Cogan, Michael Wichita, Melissa Golden
      106 · November 1 at 1:15pm
    •  This event from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting sounds very interesting: Pulitzer Center's FotoWeekDC photojournalist panel at GW on Thursday November 8 6-7:30pm. http://bit.ly/GWeventFW Nadia Shira Cohen, Dominic Bracco II, Jason Motlagh, Peter DiCampo and Larry Price will discuss their experiences shooting for global goods, local costs stories.
      2 · October 31 at 1:50pm
    • Tomas Vh
       Interesting dispatch from the Golden Triangle from Gary Knight and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. http://pulitzercenter.org/projects/mekong-golden-triangle-methamphetamine-shipping-chinese-soft-power-southeast-asia
      October 31 at 7:31am
    •  For those of you who're interested in Burma, China's regional rise, and human rights, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting's series on the Burma Road, China's emerging path to energy security, is worth a thorough read. Check out the whole thing.
      51 · October 30 at 7:23pm
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  4. Students from the Washington Semester Program at American University visited us on Election Day to discuss the media landscape in the United States. They are pictured here with Professor Gilbert Klein, and Ann Peters and Jennifer McDonald of the Pulitzer Center.
    Photo: Students from the Washington Semester Program at American University visited us on Election Day to discuss the media landscape in the United States. They are pictured here with Professor Gilbert Klein, and Ann Peters and Jennifer McDonald of the Pulitzer Center.
  5. “And Mt. Ararat – located just across a closed border in Turkey – is ever-present, dominating the skyline in Yerevan and beyond, a constant reminder of the longing for Western Armenia and of what has been lost in genocide. No longer a part ...
    of any Armenia, it is an open wound and at the same time, the symbol of being Armenian.”
    — An excerpt from Pulitzer Center grantee Alia Malek’s story on whether a diverse Syria can survive. Read the full story here http://bit.ly/1Syria.
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    Photo: “And Mt. Ararat – located just across a closed border in Turkey – is ever-present, dominating the skyline in Yerevan and beyond, a constant reminder of the longing for Western Armenia and of what has been lost in genocide. No longer a part of any Armenia, it is an open wound and at the same time, the symbol of being Armenian.”
— An excerpt from Pulitzer Center grantee Alia Malek’s story on whether a diverse Syria can survive. Read the full story here http://bit.ly/1Syria.
  6. We and PRI's The World are crowdsourcing photos of tobacco advertising in schools in China, as part of a larger story on cancer in developing countries. Send your photos of advertising in or near schools in China to pulitzercenter@gmail.com or share them on Twitter using #globalcancer. http://bit.ly/AdsChina Please share with your friends in China.
  7. Your photos needed: An estimated one million people in China die each year from tobacco-related illness, a number that may triple without more significant interventions to reduce smoking. Meanwhile, the state-run tobacco industry funds a nu...
    mber of schools, covering walls with advertisements and dispensing cigarette-shaped candy. The Pulitzer Center is looking for photos of tobacco advertising in Chinese schools as part of a special series on cancer in the developing world, produced in collaboration with the BBC World Service program The World. Your photo may be featured on the Pulitzer Center or The World’s website. Please send images to pulitzercenter@gmail.com. More info http://bit.ly/AdsChina
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  8. A small child cries as he stops on a hillside high above the mining pits near Panique. Children are expected to carry sacks of ore from the pits to a staging area where the ore is collected and taken to a gold-processing facility. In the ba...
    ckground is a lake that is contaminated by runoff containing cyanide and mercury. Read more about child labor in gold mines here http://bit.ly/childgold2. Image by Larry C. Price. Philippines, 2012.

    Hear Larry Price discuss his work on gold mining TONIGHT at School of Media & Public Affairs (SMPA) at The George Washington University at 6pm. More info http://bit.ly/GWeventFW
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    Photo: A small child cries as he stops on a hillside high above the mining pits near Panique. Children are expected to carry sacks of ore from the pits to a staging area where the ore is collected and taken to a gold-processing facility. In the background is a lake that is contaminated by runoff containing cyanide and mercury. Read more about child labor in gold mines here http://bit.ly/childgold2. Image by Larry C. Price. Philippines, 2012. 

Hear Larry Price discuss his work on gold mining TONIGHT at School of Media & Public Affairs (SMPA) at The George Washington University at 6pm. More info http://bit.ly/GWeventFW
  9. Don't forget to RSVP for tomorrow's panel on the story behind the story with photographers Dominic Bracco II, Peter DiCampo, Nadia Shira Cohen, Larry Price, Jason Motlagh and Jake Naughton! Thurs Nov 8 6-7:30pm School of Media & Public Affa...
    irs (SMPA) at The George Washington University
    http://globalgoods-fotodc.eventbrite.com/#

    Not in DC? Follow the conversation on global goods, local costs throughout FotoWeekDC with #WhoMadeMy on Twitter and Instagram.
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    Photo: Don't forget to RSVP for tomorrow's panel on the story behind the story with photographers Dominic Bracco II, Peter DiCampo, Nadia Shira Cohen, Larry Price, Jason Motlagh and Jake Naughton! Thurs Nov 8 6-7:30pm School of Media & Public Affairs (SMPA) at The George Washington University http://globalgoods-fotodc.eventbrite.com/# 

Not in DC? Follow the conversation on global goods, local costs throughout FotoWeekDC with #WhoMadeMy on Twitter and Instagram.
  10. #whomademy shrimp? It could be people like Mi Oo, 46, a Burmese migrant worker rescued in a raid on an unregistered shrimp peeling shed, Samut Sakhon province. Read more about his story http://bit.ly/projectshrimp1. Image by Jason Motlagh. Thailand, 2012. See Jason talk about his project on Thursday in DC at GW http://bit.ly/GWeventFW.
    Photo: #whomademy shrimp? It could be people like Mi Oo, 46, a Burmese migrant worker rescued in a raid on an unregistered shrimp peeling shed, Samut Sakhon province. Read more about his story http://bit.ly/projectshrimp1. Image by Jason Motlagh. Thailand, 2012. See Jason talk about his project on Thursday in DC at GW http://bit.ly/GWeventFW.
  11. It's Election Day in the US and voting is extremely important. In Greece, elections this summer gave 18 parliament seats to anti-immigrant group Golden Dawn. Their party platform is anti-immigrant, anti-Europe and anti-American. They only i...
    ncreased in popularity after their party spokesman repeatedly slapped female politicians in the face on TV. Mob violence against immigrants has forced some to close their shops and others to go to the hospital. See more in a slideshow from Pulitzer Center grantee William Wheeler http://bit.ly/U7eCHi.
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    Photo: It's Election Day in the US and voting is extremely important. In Greece, elections this summer gave 18 parliament seats to anti-immigrant group Golden Dawn. Their party platform is anti-immigrant, anti-Europe and anti-American. They only increased in popularity after their party spokesman repeatedly slapped female politicians in the face on TV. Mob violence against immigrants has forced some to close their shops and others to go to the hospital. See more in a slideshow from Pulitzer Center grantee William Wheeler http://bit.ly/U7eCHi.
  12. It's Election Day in the US, and while politics are very polarized here, in Ivory Coast elections don't go nearly so well. Read more about Ivory Coast's elections here http://bit.ly/Ru4kWn.

    For DC-area people, you can see some of Peter Di...
    Campo's photos on Ivory Coast's post-election violence and #whomademy in the Pulitzer Center exhibit at FotoWeekDC starting Saturday http://bit.ly/pulitzer-fotoDC.

    The photo is of six-year-old Bahe Campbell in Pinhou, Ivory Coast on March 7, 2012. Pinhou's official traditional dancer was killed during post-election violence last year, and now several children wear traditional attire to train and compete to fill the role. Photo by Peter DiCampo.
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    Photo: It's Election Day in the US, and while politics are very polarized here, in Ivory Coast elections don't go nearly so well. Read more about Ivory Coast's elections here http://bit.ly/Ru4kWn. 

For DC-area people, you can see some of Peter DiCampo's photos on Ivory Coast's post-election violence and #whomademy in the Pulitzer Center exhibit at FotoWeekDC starting Saturday http://bit.ly/pulitzer-fotoDC.

The photo is of six-year-old Bahe Campbell in Pinhou, Ivory Coast on March 7, 2012. Pinhou's official traditional dancer was killed during post-election violence last year, and now several children wear traditional attire to train and compete to fill the role. Photo by Peter DiCampo.
  13. Pulitzer grantee Tim Rogers reports from a sleepaway camp at the intersection of a border dispute between Costa Rica and Nicaragua. In the photo, a member of Nicaragua's youth brigade takes a dip in the Río San Juan at the camp site and loo...
    ks at a sign depicting the famous silhouette of party namesake Gen. Augusto Sandino with his famous quote “sovereignty is not a topic of debate.” These youth allege that Costa Rica's widespread deforestation has silted and changed the border river. Read the whole story here http://bit.ly/U4gi4x. Image by Tim Rogers. Nicaragua, 2012.
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    Photo: Pulitzer grantee Tim Rogers reports from a sleepaway camp at the intersection of a border dispute between Costa Rica and Nicaragua. In the photo, a member of Nicaragua's youth brigade takes a dip in the Río San Juan at the camp site and looks at a sign depicting the famous silhouette of party namesake Gen. Augusto Sandino with his famous quote “sovereignty is not a topic of debate.” These youth allege that Costa Rica's widespread deforestation has silted and changed the border river. Read the whole story here http://bit.ly/U4gi4x. Image by Tim Rogers. Nicaragua, 2012.
  14. Yesterday, a front-page article in the NY Times talked about people leaving China in record numbers. Our Brain Gain series talks about people returning in record numbers. What's happening? http://bit.ly/SBD7zw
    Photo: Yesterday, a front-page article in the NY Times talked about people leaving China in record numbers. Our Brain Gain series talks about people returning in record numbers. What's happening? http://bit.ly/SBD7zw
  15. Don't miss Pulitzer Center grantee David Chilson talking about his reporting on conflict and terrorism in Mali at Davidson College on November 8th at 7pm! http://bit.ly/OovgVL
    Photo: Don't miss Pulitzer Center grantee David Chilson talking about his reporting on conflict and terrorism in Mali at Davidson College on November 8th at 7pm! http://bit.ly/OovgVL
  16. A film crew making a B movie at the Candacraig Hotel in Pyin Oo Lin. Burma has a popular but very low-technology and low-budget domestic film industry. Film makers from China and elsewhere in Asia come to Burma to make low-budget films. Image by Gary Knight. Burma, 2012. Read the story about China’s soft power along the Mekong River: http://bit.ly/U0VmRN
    Photo: A film crew making a B movie at the Candacraig Hotel in Pyin Oo Lin. Burma has a popular but very low-technology and low-budget domestic film industry. Film makers from China and elsewhere in Asia come to Burma to make low-budget films. Image by Gary Knight. Burma, 2012. Read the story about China’s soft power along the Mekong River: http://bit.ly/U0VmRN
  17. November 8th 6-7:30pm at GW: Pulitzer Center photographers discuss their work as part of FotoWeekDC. Free and open to the public. For more information and to RSVP, click here http://bit.ly/GWeventFW.
    Photo: November 8th 6-7:30pm at GW: Pulitzer Center photographers discuss their work as part of FotoWeekDC. Free and open to the public. For more information and to RSVP, click here http://bit.ly/GWeventFW.
  18. Happy Halloween from the Pulitzer Center. The photo, by Michele McDonald, is from Halloween in Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada in 2009. The 30 below zero Fahrenheit temperature (with wind chill) didn’t stop trick-or-treaters from getting dressed up. Read more about Igloolik’s Halloween here http://bit.ly/W2QbCf.
    Photo: Happy Halloween from the Pulitzer Center. The photo, by Michele McDonald, is from Halloween in Igloolik, Nunavut, Canada in 2009. The 30 below zero Fahrenheit temperature (with wind chill) didn’t stop trick-or-treaters from getting dressed up. Read more about Igloolik’s Halloween here http://bit.ly/W2QbCf.

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