Please join the Pulitzer Center for a special event with grantees
journalist JON COHEN and filmmaker CARL GIERSTORFER on MONDAY,
FEBRUARY 26, 2018, in the Community Room at ST. LOUIS PUBLIC
RADIO.Educators, students, and the general public are welcome.
_PARTICIPATING EDUCATORS RECEIVE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CERTIFICATES
FROM THE PULITZER CENTER._
The evening is divided in two parts:
From 6 - 7 pm, Cohen and Gierstorfer present selections from their
science reporting, with a focus on communicable diseases including
HIV/AIDS and Ebola. How do journalists create fascinating, relatable
stories out of complex science? How can teachers use this and other
Pulitzer Center reporting? Education director Mark Schulte discusses
the Pulitzer Center's K-12 education program, highlighting exciting
free curriculum resources and engagement opportunities for St. Louis
teachers.
From 7 - 8 pm, join the journalists, Pulitzer Center staff and local
educators for a reception.
COHEN was the lead reporter on the Pulitzer Center's six-part series
"The End of AIDS?" with PBS_ NewsHour._ The series won both a national
Emmy award and the top broadcast reporting prize from the National
Academies of Science. Cohen and a _NewsHour_ team are currently in
Russia and Nigeria filming a follow-on series, also supported by the
Pulitzer Center, that focuses on the two countries lagging farthest
behind in beating AIDS.
GIERSTORFER is an award-winning science journalist based in Berlin who
has completed two full-length documentaries with support from the
Pulitzer Center. One of the documentaries is on the origins of
HIV-AIDS (focused mostly on the Democratic Republic of the Congo and
Cameroon, which screened at Washington University in St. Louis April
2015. The other is on one Liberian village's struggle to cope with
Ebola. Gierstorfer is currently at work on a third project with the
Pulitzer Center, this one focused on how to protect "uncontacted"
people in the Amazon from disease.
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