You might have seen Craig Welch and Steve Ringman’s project Sea Change, a stunning exploration of worldwide ocean acidification.
But did you know that both journalists learned how to scuba dive for this project? And that both men, who spent countless hours reporting on sea-life, fishing, and ocean chemistry, get seasick?
You've probably seen Dan Grossman and Alex MacLean’s project The Big Picture: Alberta’s Oil Sands. In this project, Grossman, a print and audio journalist, and MacLean, an aerial photographer, soar above the Canadian tar fields in a Cessna 722 to try to capture the mind-boggling scale of the oil production.
But did you know that the size of a Cessna 722’s cabin is roughly equivalent to the interior of of a VW Beetle? And that MacLean’s aerial photography techniques are often as simple as opening a window (or a door, as it turns out) and leaning out of the plane?
These are the stories we tell in Field Notes, the Pulitzer Center’s new podcast. Field Notes takes you behind the scenes of international reporting. Award-winning journalists bring you personal stories from the field—a nerve-wracking descent into a mine shaft in the Philippines, a journey aboard a "deadly" crab-fishing boat in the Bering Sea, an assignment behind the gates of a military base in Afghanistan, and more—to give you a glimpse at what it takes to bring a news story to life.
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