Neeta Satam | नीता साटम

Turns out I couldn't abandon Twitter. I am back three years later.

Starting today, St. Louis city employees must wear masks indoors. St. Louis health officials are again recommending that residents wear masks as cases of COVID-19 and other respiratory viruses rise throughout the region. hdlne.me/https://www.st…

@MarieDennise @NPPA Don’t forget that visual journalism is still journalism first. We want to witness as much of the story as you, so we’d much rather get in on the ground floor of the story rather than being asked for art after you’re done with your part of the reporting.

@MarieDennise @NPPA Reporters please don’t address a PJ as “ My photographer” while speaking to a source. Photojournalists don’t address reporters as “My writer”.

#Photojournalists 📸📹, what are the things u wish non-visual journalists (writers, editors, producers, broadcast reporters) working with you or in your newsroom knew about visual #journalism? What should they know about collaborating with u and about the craft? #training @NPPA

“When you start to imagine a street, a block, a neighborhood, and a city or a community as a whole with several green roofs, then you have something. Because it’s about the collective.” Mine for @undarkmag, on beating the heat in favelas with green roofs. undark.org/2023/05/22/in-…

🌊 Applications are open for the Ocean Reporting Network (ORN)! ORN will support, for one year, at least eight full-time Fellows across the globe. ORN will better equip journalists with research capacity, data skills, and editorial mentorship. Learn more in the 🧵 1/4👇

📢A reminder: @nytimes are partnering with ACOS to open up their in-house safety training in NYC to a limited number of freelancers. This 4-day A.R.T School in June will help journalists more safely pursue aggressive, adversarial reporting. Info & apply: bit.ly/3Mh9R1x

Really important project happening in STL that monitors air pollution on urban farms on North St. Louis. “Monitoring air quality can determine if crops will be healthy to consume, said Thi Nguyen, co-founder of Climate Changents.”

Unpaid internships harm industries as a whole and disproportionately favor those from higher income brackets. This does not diversify nor support the talent pipeline into journalism. Do better, @FOX2now and @NXSTMediaGroup.

“I feel we have no rights and dignity” What life is like at the factory that made your iPhone restofworld.org/2023/foxconn-i…

A reminder that Elsevier made $10.5 BILLION in 2022 from selling your academic journals and articles behind paywalls, and make more profit than Amazon, Google, and Apple every year… And paid the academics who wrote the articles $0 And paid the reviewers of the articles $0

Lots of folks are learning about Corky Lee because he's the Google Doodle of the day. As it happens, a bunch of 4th graders in LA have been studying his work for the last few months and today put up an art installation inspired by the late photographer and activist.

The little-known Nevada company making millions off the western water shortage apple.news/AmtZPwG0nR4q-y…

200 schools across Rwanda Tz & Kenya now watch Team Sayari in school. The entertaining nature series features 11 junior presenters, & dozens of African conservation scientists fm 5 African countries where it was shot. Educating children is a strategy of @WildlifeDirect to create generational change, transform our climate response, deepen our connection to nature & support nature based livelihoods.

“But photojournalists and media scholars warned that the use of AI-generated images could undermine Amnesty’s own work and feed conspiracy theories.” Amnesty International criticised for using AI-generated images | Colombia | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2023/may…

Annie Ernaux Has Broken Every Taboo of What Women Are Allowed to Write nytimes.com/2023/05/02/mag…

The Women Photograph Mentorship Program is open for applications! We've reimagined the program and this year will pair 5 early career photographers with a mentor + provide $2,000 to support the production of a photo project. Read more + apply by May 31! womenphotograph.com/mentorship-app…

@dharnanoor @guardian @GuardianUS Congratulations!

sources say I'm the new fossil fuels & climate reporter at @guardian/@GuardianUS :) I'll be covering the fossil fuel industry's contributions to the climate crisis & efforts to mislead the American public, as well as the attempts to hold the sector accountable. VERY EXCITED

The @IUCNRedList is a critical indicator of the health of the world’s #biodiversity, and a powerful tool to help implement the Global Biodiversity Framework. bit.ly/440eXam #KMGBF