AP wins Overseas Press Club award for business reporting
The Associated Press team that uncovered slaves being used to catch fish sold in U.S. grocery stores and restaurants has won the Overseas Press Club award for business journalism. The Malcolm Forbes Award honors the best international business news reporting in newspapers, news services or online. Martha Mendoza, Margie Mason, Robin McDowell and Esther Htusan from […]
AP wins Pulitzer for fish slavery series
A team of Associated Press reporters won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service based on its international investigation of the fishing industry in Southeast Asia that freed more than 2,000 slaves and traced the seafood they caught to supermarkets and pet food providers across the United States. The reporting by Esther Htusan, Margie Mason, Robin […]
IRE Medals given to two works in business journalism
Investigative Reporters and Editors has bestowed the IRE Medal, its highest honor, to two works of business journalism. The first went to “Seafood from Slaves” from Associated Press reporters Margie Mason, Robin McDowell, Martha Mendoza and Esther Htusan. View this story online The judges noted, “AP reporters discovered an island home to thousands of enslaved […]
AP slave fishing story wins Shadid award
The Associated Press has won the 2016 Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics for reporting that resulted in the freeing of 2,000 slave laborers used by the fishing industry in Southeast Asia. The award will be presented at the annual conference of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Journalism Ethics on April 29 in Madison […]
AP’s global markets editor gets new job
Jonathan Fahey, the AP’s global markets editor, has been named global health editor for The Associated Press, overseeing a team of journalists to cover medicine, public health, the health care business and consumer health issues. An AP story states, “The appointment was announced Monday by Marjorie Miller, AP’s vice president of global news and enterprise.”‘We […]
AP, Las Vegas Review-Journal reporters win ethics award
A group of Associated Press reporters who uncovered slaves used to catch fish sold at large retailers and restaurants and Las Vegas Review-Journal reporters who disclosed the newspaper’s new owner were named winners of the 16th annual Ancil Payne Awards for Ethics in Journalism on Tuesday. The awards are administered by the University of Oregon School […]
AP names Keller to its markets team
Associated Press business editor Lisa Gibbs sent out the following announcement on Tuesday: Everyone, I’m happy to announce that Greg Keller will be joining our department coming to work on the Markets team in New York City. The move marks Greg’s return to full-time business news. Greg has been with the AP since 2008 in Paris, where […]
AP’s series on slave fishing wins Selden Ring Award
Reporters from the Associated Press have won USC Annenberg’s 2016 Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, for a series of stories that showed how seafood sold in U.S. grocery stores and restaurants had been produced by slaves. Their work prompted reforms and prosecutions – and the release of more than 2,000 people who had been […]
WSJ’s Wong named AP’s news director for China
Wall Street Journal technology reporter Gillan Wong has been named news director for China for the Associated Press. An AP story states, “Wong, who currently covers technology at The Wall Street Journal, will be based in Beijing as the AP’s greater China news director. In that role, she will oversee coverage in video, text and photos, across […]
How AP stories are changing how retailers purchase fish and shrimp
A team of four Associated Press reporters disclosed earlier this week that grocery stores and restaurants across the world, including Wal-Mart and Red Lobster, are selling shrimp peeled by slaves. That story has prompted exporters and retailers to promise changes this week in the system of exporting and purchasing fish. The story, by Margie Mason, Robin McDowell, […]
