Jelter Meers
@jmeers.bsky.social
Research Editor at the Pulitzer Center
Working on ocean, rainforest, and AI stories
Specialized in following the money
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Working on ocean, rainforest, and AI stories
Specialized in following the money
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The alarming test results that pushed to the FDA to announce a new plan for strengthening infant formula oversight, via @lkirchner.bsky.social @consumerreports.org
Half the samples they tested had "potentially harmful levels of at least one contaminant"
www.consumerreports.org/babies-kids/...
Half the samples they tested had "potentially harmful levels of at least one contaminant"
www.consumerreports.org/babies-kids/...
We Tested 41 Baby Formulas for Lead and Arsenic - Consumer Reports
CR tested over 40 baby formulas for heavy metals as well as lead, arsenic, BPA, and other potentially harmful contaminants. Here's what you should know.
www.consumerreports.org
March 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The alarming test results that pushed to the FDA to announce a new plan for strengthening infant formula oversight, via @lkirchner.bsky.social @consumerreports.org
Half the samples they tested had "potentially harmful levels of at least one contaminant"
www.consumerreports.org/babies-kids/...
Half the samples they tested had "potentially harmful levels of at least one contaminant"
www.consumerreports.org/babies-kids/...
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Apply now for the Pulitzer Center StoryReach Midwest Fellowship!
This part-time Fellowship will focus on reporting and audience engagement projects from local and regional news outlets in 12 American Midwest states.
Learn more about eligibility.
👉 bit.ly/StoryRMW 👈
This part-time Fellowship will focus on reporting and audience engagement projects from local and regional news outlets in 12 American Midwest states.
Learn more about eligibility.
👉 bit.ly/StoryRMW 👈
StoryReach U.S. Fellowships
The Pulitzer Center’s StoryReach U.S. reporting and engagement accelerator seeks newsroom partners who value collaboration and audience engagement as much as powerful enterprise reporting. This is a.....
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March 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Apply now for the Pulitzer Center StoryReach Midwest Fellowship!
This part-time Fellowship will focus on reporting and audience engagement projects from local and regional news outlets in 12 American Midwest states.
Learn more about eligibility.
👉 bit.ly/StoryRMW 👈
This part-time Fellowship will focus on reporting and audience engagement projects from local and regional news outlets in 12 American Midwest states.
Learn more about eligibility.
👉 bit.ly/StoryRMW 👈
🐋 Ocean journalists, save the date!
On March 18, @pulitzercenter.bsky.social is hosting a webinar about integrating diverse perspectives into ocean reporting.
With @jennthornhillverma.bsky.social @carlsmithaus.bsky.social and @barrychristianson.com
pulitzercenter.org/event/how-en...
On March 18, @pulitzercenter.bsky.social is hosting a webinar about integrating diverse perspectives into ocean reporting.
With @jennthornhillverma.bsky.social @carlsmithaus.bsky.social and @barrychristianson.com
pulitzercenter.org/event/how-en...
How To Ensure Equity in Ocean Narratives
Image Join us for a webinar designed for journalists eager to transform their storytelling. In "How to Ensure Equity in Ocean Narratives," Ocean Reporting Network Fellow Jenn Thornhill Verma and rep...
pulitzercenter.org
March 13, 2025 at 10:32 AM
🐋 Ocean journalists, save the date!
On March 18, @pulitzercenter.bsky.social is hosting a webinar about integrating diverse perspectives into ocean reporting.
With @jennthornhillverma.bsky.social @carlsmithaus.bsky.social and @barrychristianson.com
pulitzercenter.org/event/how-en...
On March 18, @pulitzercenter.bsky.social is hosting a webinar about integrating diverse perspectives into ocean reporting.
With @jennthornhillverma.bsky.social @carlsmithaus.bsky.social and @barrychristianson.com
pulitzercenter.org/event/how-en...
This @gijn.org story does a great job at showing how the loss of USAID funding has impacted non-profit investigative journalism outlets around the world. gijn.org/stories/usai...
The USAID Crisis and Funding the Future of Independent Media
Across the investigative journalism community, GIJN has heard uniform voices of solidarity, and numerous creative strategies for surviving this fundraising crisis.
gijn.org
February 28, 2025 at 10:12 AM
This @gijn.org story does a great job at showing how the loss of USAID funding has impacted non-profit investigative journalism outlets around the world. gijn.org/stories/usai...
@pulitzercenter.bsky.social rainforest reporter Choon Chyuan wrote this methodology that shows how to look at the funders of deforestation. I had the privilege to edit it.
Read it on pulitzercenter.org/uncovering-d... or GIJN!
Read it on pulitzercenter.org/uncovering-d... or GIJN!
February 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM
@pulitzercenter.bsky.social rainforest reporter Choon Chyuan wrote this methodology that shows how to look at the funders of deforestation. I had the privilege to edit it.
Read it on pulitzercenter.org/uncovering-d... or GIJN!
Read it on pulitzercenter.org/uncovering-d... or GIJN!
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💫 NEW! After a tip-off about unsustainable logging at a state-run oil palm plantation, @malaysiakini.com's Low Choon Chyuan conducted a year-long investigation combining on-the-ground environmental reporting with QGIS & satellite imagery.
Here's how: https://twp.ai/1RpzBu
Here's how: https://twp.ai/1RpzBu
Uncovering the Deforestation, Mismanagement, and Funders Behind a Malaysian Oil Palm Plantation
After a tip-off about unsustainable logging at a state-run oil palm plantation, Low Choon Chyuan conducted a year-long investigation combining on-the-ground environmental reporting with QGIS and satellite imagery.
twp.ai
February 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
💫 NEW! After a tip-off about unsustainable logging at a state-run oil palm plantation, @malaysiakini.com's Low Choon Chyuan conducted a year-long investigation combining on-the-ground environmental reporting with QGIS & satellite imagery.
Here's how: https://twp.ai/1RpzBu
Here's how: https://twp.ai/1RpzBu
Join the @pulitzercenter.bsky.social webinar tomorrow on investigating green finance!
Reporters @brunabronoski.bsky.social and @sashachavkin.bsky.social will give practical tips on how to tackle this side of environmental reporting. pulitzercenter.org/event/how-in...
Reporters @brunabronoski.bsky.social and @sashachavkin.bsky.social will give practical tips on how to tackle this side of environmental reporting. pulitzercenter.org/event/how-in...
How To Investigate Green Finance
Join investigative journalists Bruna Bronoski, Alexander Abdelilah, and Sasha Chavkin for an in-depth discussion on investigating "green finance" schemes. Hosted by the Pulitzer Center, this event wil...
pulitzercenter.org
February 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Join the @pulitzercenter.bsky.social webinar tomorrow on investigating green finance!
Reporters @brunabronoski.bsky.social and @sashachavkin.bsky.social will give practical tips on how to tackle this side of environmental reporting. pulitzercenter.org/event/how-in...
Reporters @brunabronoski.bsky.social and @sashachavkin.bsky.social will give practical tips on how to tackle this side of environmental reporting. pulitzercenter.org/event/how-in...
Learn how corporations that are heavy polluters (gas, mining, food production) are getting billions in green loans (SLLs)
Congratulations @sashachavkin.bsky.social for getting this RIN @pulitzercenter.bsky.social story out!
www.theexamination.org/articles/how...
Congratulations @sashachavkin.bsky.social for getting this RIN @pulitzercenter.bsky.social story out!
www.theexamination.org/articles/how...
How mega-polluters take advantage of billions in green loans
Banks poured $286 billion into corporations linked to deforestation and polluting industries like fossil fuels and mining through a lax type of green finance called sustainability-linked loans.
www.theexamination.org
January 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Learn how corporations that are heavy polluters (gas, mining, food production) are getting billions in green loans (SLLs)
Congratulations @sashachavkin.bsky.social for getting this RIN @pulitzercenter.bsky.social story out!
www.theexamination.org/articles/how...
Congratulations @sashachavkin.bsky.social for getting this RIN @pulitzercenter.bsky.social story out!
www.theexamination.org/articles/how...
A first-hand look into the regulation and lack of enforcement to protect DRC's rainforest, an important carbon sink, against mining.
Congratulations to our @pulitzercenter.bsky.social RIN Fellow Elodie for making this documentary with @mongabay.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAdE...
Congratulations to our @pulitzercenter.bsky.social RIN Fellow Elodie for making this documentary with @mongabay.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAdE...
Chasse à l’or et déforestation en République du Congo : la désillusion verte
YouTube video by Mongabay Afrique
www.youtube.com
January 9, 2025 at 11:17 AM
A first-hand look into the regulation and lack of enforcement to protect DRC's rainforest, an important carbon sink, against mining.
Congratulations to our @pulitzercenter.bsky.social RIN Fellow Elodie for making this documentary with @mongabay.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAdE...
Congratulations to our @pulitzercenter.bsky.social RIN Fellow Elodie for making this documentary with @mongabay.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAdE...
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Mining lithium, nickel, and other materials needed for electronic device components has devastating consequences on environments and workers around the world. Meanwhile, less than 1 in 5 cellphones are recycled each year.
By @vincebeiser.bsky.social for @time-magazine.bsky.social. bit.ly/3B4z7GV
By @vincebeiser.bsky.social for @time-magazine.bsky.social. bit.ly/3B4z7GV
The True Cost of Black Friday
If you’re one of the millions of Americans aiming to score a new cell phone, cordless drill, or other gadget this Black Friday or Cyber Monday, you might want to consider the real costs of that sale.....
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December 8, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Mining lithium, nickel, and other materials needed for electronic device components has devastating consequences on environments and workers around the world. Meanwhile, less than 1 in 5 cellphones are recycled each year.
By @vincebeiser.bsky.social for @time-magazine.bsky.social. bit.ly/3B4z7GV
By @vincebeiser.bsky.social for @time-magazine.bsky.social. bit.ly/3B4z7GV
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NEW – Analysis: Why the $300bn climate-finance goal is even less ambitious than it seems | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social w/comment from @joethwaites.bsky.social Li Shuo @cgdev.org
Read here: https://buff.ly/4fUmwVX
Read here: https://buff.ly/4fUmwVX
December 3, 2024 at 4:44 PM
NEW – Analysis: Why the $300bn climate-finance goal is even less ambitious than it seems | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social w/comment from @joethwaites.bsky.social Li Shuo @cgdev.org
Read here: https://buff.ly/4fUmwVX
Read here: https://buff.ly/4fUmwVX
Great COP29 summary from @wedonthavetime.bsky.social newsletter:
1. IEA estimates we need $4.5 trillion per year for the energy transition
2. We're currently investing $1 trillion per year
3. Governments spend $7 trillion per year on fossil fuel subsidies
1. IEA estimates we need $4.5 trillion per year for the energy transition
2. We're currently investing $1 trillion per year
3. Governments spend $7 trillion per year on fossil fuel subsidies
December 3, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Great COP29 summary from @wedonthavetime.bsky.social newsletter:
1. IEA estimates we need $4.5 trillion per year for the energy transition
2. We're currently investing $1 trillion per year
3. Governments spend $7 trillion per year on fossil fuel subsidies
1. IEA estimates we need $4.5 trillion per year for the energy transition
2. We're currently investing $1 trillion per year
3. Governments spend $7 trillion per year on fossil fuel subsidies
Together with Earth Genome, the @pulitzercenter.bsky.social Rainforest Investigations Network developed a way to detect airstrips (and mining) using satellite imagery 🛰️
It lead to a public platform and it is great to see the methodology being used by the amazing reporters at Mongabay!
It lead to a public platform and it is great to see the methodology being used by the amazing reporters at Mongabay!
Mongabay and Earth Genome detected 67 clandestine airstrips used for transporting drugs in the Peruvian regions of Ucayali, Huánuco and Pasco - most of which are located in and around Indigenous communities, reserves for people living in voluntary isolation and forest concessions.
Read:
Read:
Indigenous leaders killed as narco airstrips cut into their Amazon territories
Mongabay and Earth Genome detected 67 clandestine airstrips used for transporting drugs in the Peruvian regions of Ucayali, Huánuco and Pasco. The analysis used artificial intelligence (AI) and satell...
news.mongabay.com
November 27, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Together with Earth Genome, the @pulitzercenter.bsky.social Rainforest Investigations Network developed a way to detect airstrips (and mining) using satellite imagery 🛰️
It lead to a public platform and it is great to see the methodology being used by the amazing reporters at Mongabay!
It lead to a public platform and it is great to see the methodology being used by the amazing reporters at Mongabay!
Unregulated, for-profit AI chatbots might not be a good source for mental health 🤔
1. They might keep people from making real social connections (supported by @pulitzercenter.bsky.social) @tortoisemedia.bsky.social
lnk.to/MyAIGirlfrie...
2. Encourage disordered eating
futurism.com/character-ai...
1. They might keep people from making real social connections (supported by @pulitzercenter.bsky.social) @tortoisemedia.bsky.social
lnk.to/MyAIGirlfrie...
2. Encourage disordered eating
futurism.com/character-ai...
My AI girlfriend: a cure for loneliness
Eugenia Kuyda thinks she can solve an “epidemic” of loneliness. Her app, Replika, is “the AI companion who cares”, a chatbot that can text you, flirt with you, and promises to love you unconditionally...
lnk.to
November 27, 2024 at 11:01 AM
Unregulated, for-profit AI chatbots might not be a good source for mental health 🤔
1. They might keep people from making real social connections (supported by @pulitzercenter.bsky.social) @tortoisemedia.bsky.social
lnk.to/MyAIGirlfrie...
2. Encourage disordered eating
futurism.com/character-ai...
1. They might keep people from making real social connections (supported by @pulitzercenter.bsky.social) @tortoisemedia.bsky.social
lnk.to/MyAIGirlfrie...
2. Encourage disordered eating
futurism.com/character-ai...
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Surprising no one, Trump's transition team is compiling an energy package that would
🚢 Approve new LNG export plants
🛢️ Boost oil drilling off the US coast & on federal land
🚗 Repeal tax credits for EV
⚡️ Remove clean power plant standards
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
🚢 Approve new LNG export plants
🛢️ Boost oil drilling off the US coast & on federal land
🚗 Repeal tax credits for EV
⚡️ Remove clean power plant standards
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Exclusive: Trump prepares wide-ranging energy plan to boost gas exports, oil drilling, sources say
The package would approve export permits for new LNG projects and increase oil drilling off the U.S. coast and on federal lands.
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Surprising no one, Trump's transition team is compiling an energy package that would
🚢 Approve new LNG export plants
🛢️ Boost oil drilling off the US coast & on federal land
🚗 Repeal tax credits for EV
⚡️ Remove clean power plant standards
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
🚢 Approve new LNG export plants
🛢️ Boost oil drilling off the US coast & on federal land
🚗 Repeal tax credits for EV
⚡️ Remove clean power plant standards
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Check out this AI #datajournalism methodology written by my colleagues @facostarainis.bsky.social and Karol Ilagan.
🤖 It shows how to analyze algorithm predictions and compare to real world results. @pulitzercenter.bsky.social @pcij.bsky.social
pulitzercenter.org/opening-ai-b...
🤖 It shows how to analyze algorithm predictions and compare to real world results. @pulitzercenter.bsky.social @pcij.bsky.social
pulitzercenter.org/opening-ai-b...
Opening the AI 'Black Box': How We Investigated Grab’s Fare System
Users of Grab, the Philippines' most popular ride-hailing app, are at the mercy of an opaque algorithm that calculates service prices. When they book a ride, the amount to be paid for the distance...
pulitzercenter.org
November 25, 2024 at 12:18 PM
Check out this AI #datajournalism methodology written by my colleagues @facostarainis.bsky.social and Karol Ilagan.
🤖 It shows how to analyze algorithm predictions and compare to real world results. @pulitzercenter.bsky.social @pcij.bsky.social
pulitzercenter.org/opening-ai-b...
🤖 It shows how to analyze algorithm predictions and compare to real world results. @pulitzercenter.bsky.social @pcij.bsky.social
pulitzercenter.org/opening-ai-b...
🌊 We have published our research into the state of #oceanjournalism!
In short, audiences seek:
1. Stories deeply reported and scientifically accurate
2. Diverse perspectives from under-represented voices
3. Explainer visuals
Read the Pulitzer Center report here: pulitzercenter.org/sites/defaul...
In short, audiences seek:
1. Stories deeply reported and scientifically accurate
2. Diverse perspectives from under-represented voices
3. Explainer visuals
Read the Pulitzer Center report here: pulitzercenter.org/sites/defaul...
November 20, 2024 at 2:26 PM
🌊 We have published our research into the state of #oceanjournalism!
In short, audiences seek:
1. Stories deeply reported and scientifically accurate
2. Diverse perspectives from under-represented voices
3. Explainer visuals
Read the Pulitzer Center report here: pulitzercenter.org/sites/defaul...
In short, audiences seek:
1. Stories deeply reported and scientifically accurate
2. Diverse perspectives from under-represented voices
3. Explainer visuals
Read the Pulitzer Center report here: pulitzercenter.org/sites/defaul...
✨Oportunidade para jornalistas✨
Receba financiamento por um ano inteiro para investigar questões relacionadas à floresta tropical.
Inscreva-se agora para esta bolsa do Pulitzer Center Fellowship: pulitzercenter.org/pt-br/grants...
Receba financiamento por um ano inteiro para investigar questões relacionadas à floresta tropical.
Inscreva-se agora para esta bolsa do Pulitzer Center Fellowship: pulitzercenter.org/pt-br/grants...
Candidate-se para uma bolsa da Rainforest Investigations Network
A rede é uma iniciativa que busca mobilizar a reportagem investigativa e a colaboração internacional para abordar histórias na interseção entre mudança climática, corrupção e governança nas três...
pulitzercenter.org
October 22, 2024 at 9:57 AM
✨Oportunidade para jornalistas✨
Receba financiamento por um ano inteiro para investigar questões relacionadas à floresta tropical.
Inscreva-se agora para esta bolsa do Pulitzer Center Fellowship: pulitzercenter.org/pt-br/grants...
Receba financiamento por um ano inteiro para investigar questões relacionadas à floresta tropical.
Inscreva-se agora para esta bolsa do Pulitzer Center Fellowship: pulitzercenter.org/pt-br/grants...
✨Journalism Opportunity✨
Get funded for a whole year to investigate rainforest issues.
Apply now for this Pulitzer Center Fellowship: pulitzercenter.org/grants-fello...
Get funded for a whole year to investigate rainforest issues.
Apply now for this Pulitzer Center Fellowship: pulitzercenter.org/grants-fello...
Apply To Join the Rainforest Investigations Network
The network seeks to harness investigative reporting and cross-border collaboration to tackle stories at the intersection of climate change, corruption, and governance in the world’s three main...
pulitzercenter.org
October 22, 2024 at 9:55 AM
✨Journalism Opportunity✨
Get funded for a whole year to investigate rainforest issues.
Apply now for this Pulitzer Center Fellowship: pulitzercenter.org/grants-fello...
Get funded for a whole year to investigate rainforest issues.
Apply now for this Pulitzer Center Fellowship: pulitzercenter.org/grants-fello...
Catch me on Thursday at the Ethical Assembly in Lisbon talking about how we investigatve supply chains at the Pulitzer Center.
We will cover products tied to environmental damage in rainforests and oceans. ethicalassembly.com/agenda-day2-...
We will cover products tied to environmental damage in rainforests and oceans. ethicalassembly.com/agenda-day2-...
October 1, 2024 at 10:00 AM
Catch me on Thursday at the Ethical Assembly in Lisbon talking about how we investigatve supply chains at the Pulitzer Center.
We will cover products tied to environmental damage in rainforests and oceans. ethicalassembly.com/agenda-day2-...
We will cover products tied to environmental damage in rainforests and oceans. ethicalassembly.com/agenda-day2-...
🙏 IJNET kindly published a shorter version of my methodology on uncovering investors and investments tied to environmental destruction:
ijnet.org/en/story/rev...
The full original piece here: pulitzercenter.org/exposing-mon...
ijnet.org/en/story/rev...
The full original piece here: pulitzercenter.org/exposing-mon...
Exposing the Money Behind Environmental Destruction II: Investigating Investors
This is the second installment in the Pulitzer Center series about uncovering the financial incentives behind environmental damage. We show how our research team follows the money as part of their...
pulitzercenter.org
September 19, 2024 at 9:24 AM
🙏 IJNET kindly published a shorter version of my methodology on uncovering investors and investments tied to environmental destruction:
ijnet.org/en/story/rev...
The full original piece here: pulitzercenter.org/exposing-mon...
ijnet.org/en/story/rev...
The full original piece here: pulitzercenter.org/exposing-mon...
Today at 4PM GMT, I will be explaining how to uncover the investors behind environmental destruction.
I will go over some of the basics from my latest Pulitzer Center methodology piece "Investigating Investors." (pulitzercenter.org/exposing-mon...)
Register here: bit.ly/3XFnVJk
I will go over some of the basics from my latest Pulitzer Center methodology piece "Investigating Investors." (pulitzercenter.org/exposing-mon...)
Register here: bit.ly/3XFnVJk
How To Use OSINT To Uncover the Investors Behind Environmental Crime
Environmental crimes are often driven by complex financial networks, concealed behind layers of corporate entities and murky investors. However, with the right tools and techniques, it’s possible to s...
bit.ly
September 17, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Today at 4PM GMT, I will be explaining how to uncover the investors behind environmental destruction.
I will go over some of the basics from my latest Pulitzer Center methodology piece "Investigating Investors." (pulitzercenter.org/exposing-mon...)
Register here: bit.ly/3XFnVJk
I will go over some of the basics from my latest Pulitzer Center methodology piece "Investigating Investors." (pulitzercenter.org/exposing-mon...)
Register here: bit.ly/3XFnVJk