Myanmar celebrates first Pulitzer Prize-winning female journalist



YANGON: -- An ethnic Kachin journalist from the Associated Press (AP) is the first woman from Myanmar to be among those awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for her reporting, The Irrawaddy reported.

Esther Htusan, 29, is one of four AP journalists who worked on an investigation into severe labour abuses within the Southeast Asian fishing industry, a sector which supplies seafood to supermarkets and restaurants abroad.

The team’s reporting contributed to the freeing of approximately 2,000 slaves; their work also brought perpetrators of trafficking and enslavement to justice and inspired reforms in the industry.

From March until December of 2015, Esther Htusan, Margie Mason, Robin McDowell and Martha Mendoza broke the story of fishing industry atrocities in nine installments. On Monday, it was announced that the series had earned the AP team the award for excellence in journalism in the category of Public Service.

Aye Aye Win, a former AP reporter from Myanmar, said she was very proud of the AP journalists for their service to those who would have otherwise remained trapped at sea.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/content/160245

-- Thai PBS 2016-04-20

Awesome, good for her.

And they forgot to mention mostly within Thailand ...

"With courage, integrity and tenacity, this team of journalists has shaken up the $7 billion-a-year Thai seafood export industry, engaged governments, corporations and consumers,"

http://www.ap.org/Content/Press-Release/2016/AP-wins-Pulitzer-Prize-for-Seafood-from-Slaves-investigation

Great to see somebody, from Myanmar doing this. Thailand will one day be working for the Burmese.!

Good on you lady.It takes courage to be an investigate reporter. With out people like you we would have only the political controlled media for the truth.

Sure the Thai Government will send her congratulations as well, as she has helped the general to stamp corruption.

Kidding aside, was hoping somebody would be rewarded for this. It sounds like she risked life and limb for the benefit of others.