Margie Mason is an American, Pulitzer-winning journalist. She's a native of Daybrook, West Virginia and one of a handful of journalists who have been allowed to report from inside North Korea.[1] Mason has traveled, as a reporter, to more than 20 countries on four continents.[2] She has worked for the Associated Press for more than a decade, and is the Indonesian Bureau chief and Asian medical and human-rights writer in Jakarta, Indonesia.[3][4] She was one of four journalists from the Associated Press who won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service,[5] the 2015 George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting,[6] and the 2016 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.[7]
At age 19, Mason, still a student at West Virginia University, worked for The Dominion Post, as a typist and eventually reporting as an intern.[1][3] After graduation, she worked for the Associated Press, first in Charleston, West Virginia, and then at Jacksonville, Florida.[2][3] After she received her fellowship from the University of Hawaii, in 1999, she worked for the Associated Press in San Francisco, California.[2][3]
In 2000, Mason traveled to Vietnam for the first time, reporting on the 25th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon.[1] She returned again in 2003, as an Associated Press correspondent in Hanoi.[3]
Reporting on slavery in Thailand's fishing fleetsedit
A major milestone in Masons career was her work with other reporters on the staff of the Associated Press on the Pulitzer prize-winning series of stories about slave-labor in Thailand'sfishing industry. The series was the product of over a year of investigative reporting, and led to the rescue of over 2000 slaves in the fishing trade. Following the reporting, the U.S. State Department began their own investigation and new legislation was passed to help close loopholes that allowed sales of products produced with slave labor.[11][12][13][14]
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^Mendoza, Martha; Mason, Margie (December 27, 2009). "Danger at home: Rare form of TB comes to U.S." msnbc.com. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
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^"Slave-Labor Loophole Closed By Senate After 8 Decades". www.fa-mag.com. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
^Booth, Barbara (March 3, 2016). "The victims of the 21st-century slave trade". CNBC. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
^"How the AP busted an international seafood slavery racket". Poynter. March 30, 2016. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
^Utube. "US Supply Chain Tainted by Slave-Caught Fish".
^"AP Investigation: Are slaves catching the fish you buy?". AP NEWS. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
^"AP investigation prompts emergency rescue of 300 plus slaves". AP NEWS. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
^"US lets in Thai fish caught by slaves despite law". AP Explore: Seafood from slaves. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
^"Seafood from Slaves". Associated Press. April 18, 2016. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
^"AP Exclusive: AP tracks slave boats to Papua New Guinea". AP NEWS. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
^"AP investigation prompts new round of slave rescues". AP Explore: Seafood from slaves. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
^"More than 2,000 enslaved fishermen rescued in 6 months". AP Explore: Seafood from slaves. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
^"Global supermarkets selling shrimp peeled by slaves". AP Explore: Seafood from slaves. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
^"Shrimp shed owners deny worker abuse". Bangkok Post. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
^"AP: Shrimp processed by slaves sold in major U.S. stores". wflx.com. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
^Ferdman, Roberto A. "Don't eat that shrimp". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
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^"Martha Mendoza, Margie Mason, Robin McDowell, Esther Htusan". The Michael Kelly Award. April 18, 2016. Retrieved October 7, 2020.[permanent dead link]
^Daillak, Jonathan (September 30, 2021). "Winners of the 2021 Gerald Loeb Awards Announced by UCLA Anderson in Live Virtual Event" (Press release). Los Angeles: UCLA Anderson School of Management. Retrieved October 7, 2021.