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April 19, 2016

Pulitzer Prize Awarded to AP Investigation "Seafood from Slaves"
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And the 100th annual Pulitzer Prizes have been announced. The Washington
Post won for the series "Fatal Force," which tracked 990 police killings
throughout 2015. Lin-Manuel Miranda won best drama for "Hamilton." Ken
Armstrong of The Marshall Project and T. Christian Miller of Pro Publica
won for the investigation "An Unbelievable Story of Rape," which
chronicles a botched rape investigation. And the Associated Press won
the Pulitzer Prize for public service for the investigative series
"Seafood from Slaves," which uncovered slavery in the Southeast Asia
fishing industry-a major supplier of seafood to the United States. I sat
down with two of the AP reporters, Robin Mc Dowell and Martha Mendoza,
last week in Los Angeles.

Amy Goodman: "This issue of third-party suppliers, Martha, what do you
say to companies that say, 'We can't be responsible for going right back
to the beginning of where a fish is caught. If these men are slaves,
certainly we don't condone that, but how would we know?'"

Martha Mendoza "Well, we're a couple of moms, we are news reporters, and
we found this. I don't buy it. A major corporation that really cares and
is really committed to keeping human trafficking out of their supply
chain can get meticulous, get on the ground, talk to people, figure out
where their products come from. And it may be a little bit more
expensive for them, and their profit margin may be a little smaller, but
it's entirely doable for them to follow their product from the producer
right onto their store shelves."

The Pulitzer Prize to AP went to an all-woman team. To see our full
interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters Robin Mc Dowell and
Martha Mendoza, go to democracynow.org.
Topics:Journalism