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Janet Roberts

@jersey_janet

jersey-janet.bsky.social
Data Journalism Editor at Reuters.
Wishes she had more time for BBQ, painting and pi(e). she/her

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Reuters reporters read hundreds of academic papers and interviewed dozens of scientists to learn how deadly viruses spill over from bats to people. Part 2 of The Bat Lands explains how humans have helped one deadly virus get better at that: reuters.com/investigates/s…

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Intro concepts and final illustrations for this story about how a deadly bat virus found new ways to infect people. reuters.com/investigates/s… Reuters Reuters Graphics 🧵

Intro concepts and final illustrations for this story about how a deadly bat virus found new ways to infect people. reuters.com/investigates/s…
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Check out the simulation in this story by Grant Smith, who used GLEAMviz.org to predict what would happen if an unknown bat pathogen emerged from the Amazon in Brazil. Great job by Prasanta Kumar Dutta @[email protected] and Adolfo Arranz to bring it to life: reuters.com/investigates/s…

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Every spring in my watchdog reporting class, one student team works with Reuters. The story from last spring is out. This time, BIG LOCAL NEWS & Reuters Investigates are releasing data - enabling more investigations into climate finance reut.rs/45HmGel, tinyurl.com/yysvf6y3

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Highly recommended read by my colleague Tom Lasseter: A Reuters journalist explores his ancestors’ ties to slavery reuters.com/investigates/s… via Reuters Investigates

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Read our May investigation The Bat Lands to understand why Kerala, India, is so prone to outbreaks of zoonotic diseases like Nipah: reuters.com/investigates/s…

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Here's a story about India's efforts to keep bat viruses from infecting people. It illuminates the debate engaging global negotiators who meet next week to continue work on a treaty aimed at improving pandemic prevention and response. reuters.com/investigates/s… via Reuters Investigates

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For more on this topic, check out our full series, The Bat Lands. We used data to identify the parts of the world where the risk is highest of bat viruses spilling over to humans. reuters.com/investigates/s…

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How a US health agency became a shield for polluters. The latest deep dive from the Reuters data journalism team. reuters.com/investigates/s… via Reuters Investigates

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There is a dire situation unfolding in Darfur due to civil war - displaced civilians are dying of starvation in droves, and the only clue we have to the extent of the travesty are the growing mass graves visible in satellite imagery. Out today from Reuters:

There is a dire situation unfolding in Darfur due to civil war - displaced civilians are dying of starvation in droves, and the only clue we have to the extent of the travesty are the growing mass graves visible in satellite imagery. Out today from Reuters:
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The world has enough food and the technology to feed every person on Earth. Yet millions are starving. This Reuters story explains why. reuters.com/investigates/s…

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People are starving to death in Sudan but no one knows how many. Enter @mcneill.bsky.social and Raymon Troncoso of Reuters. They used radar and optical sensor data from satellites to count new graves at Sudan's Zamzam camp for people displaced by war. reuters.com/investigates/s…

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#Reuters offers superb analysis of how famine came to prevail in #Zamzam IDP camp & elsewhere. Deeply researched, with revealing graphics, it addresses the key question: how could famine loom clearly for well over a year without adequate int’l response? reuters.com/graphics/FAMIN…

#Reuters offers superb analysis of how famine came to prevail in #Zamzam IDP camp &amp; elsewhere. Deeply researched, with revealing graphics, it addresses the key question: how could famine loom clearly for well over a year without adequate int’l response?
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