Margie Mason Explained

Margie Mason
Birth Place:Daybrook, West Virginia, U.S.
Occupation:Journalist
Indonesian Bureau Chief
Education:West Virginia University
Employer:Associated Press

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]

Education and background

Mason was raised by her parents, Fred and Mary Mason, in Daybrook, West Virginia. She graduated from Clay-Battelle High School in 1993, in Monongalia County, West Virginia. In 1997, She graduated from West Virginia University Reed College of Media, (formerly known as West Virginia University Perley Reed School of Journalism).

In 1999, she was the recipient of a journalism fellowship in Asian studies, at the University of Hawaii, and was a 2009 Nieman Global Health fellow at Harvard. In 2017, she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from West Virginia University.

Career

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. After graduation, she worked for the Associated Press, first in Charleston, West Virginia, and then at Jacksonville, Florida. After she received her fellowship from the University of Hawaii, in 1999, she worked for the Associated Press in San Francisco, California.

In 2000, Mason traveled to Vietnam for the first time, reporting on the 25th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon. She returned again in 2003, as an Associated Press correspondent in Hanoi.

In 2004 she reported from Indonesia on the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, she also covered the bird flu, SARS, H1N1, and other disease outbreaks.[8] In 2009, Masons coverage of the issue of global drug resistance won the 2010 Science in Society Journalism award for "When Drugs Stop Working," with fellow reporter, Martha Mendoza.[9] [10]

Reporting on slavery in Thailand's fishing fleets

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's fishing 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]

Greenpeace launched a boycott of Thai Union and Chicken of the Sea and supply chains serving major U.S. companies such as Wal-Mart, Target Corporation, Kroger, Dollar General, Petco, Olive Garden, and Red Lobster, forcing them to refuse to make purchases from the Thai supplier.[15]

The series of stories began running in March, 2015, as listed below.

The reporting led to coverage in numerous US newspapers as well as international coverage.[25] [26] [27]

Awards

Mason and the staff of the Associated Press won multiple awards for the coverage of slave-labor in the fishing industry and are listed below.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Margie Mason Honorary Degrees West Virginia University. 2020-10-06. honorarydegrees.wvu.edu.
  2. Web site: Margie Mason – 10th World Conference of Science Journalists, San Francisco 2017. 2020-10-06. wcsj2017.org.
  3. Web site: Virginian. Tammy Shriver Times West. Reporting of Daybrook's Margie Mason about Asian industry part of Pulitzer Prize-winning effort. 2020-10-06. Times West Virginian. en.
  4. Web site: Margie Mason. 2020-03-03. Nieman Reports.
  5. Web site: The Pulitzer Prizes. 2016 Pulitzer Prizes Journalism. 2020-10-06. www.pulitzer.org. en.
  6. Web site: Past Winners Long Island University. 2020-10-06. www.liu.edu.
  7. Web site: Previous Winners and Finalists . Shorenstein Center . 2020-03-03 . July 11, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170711141926/https://shorensteincenter.org/goldsmith-awards/investigative-reporting-prize/previous-winners-finalists/ . dead .
  8. Web site: Expat. Indonesia. 2017-11-20. Margie Mason, Pulitzer-Prize Winning Journalist. 2020-10-07. Indonesia Expat. en-US.
  9. Web site: 2010 Science in Society Journalism Award winners. 2020-10-07. www.nasw.org. en.
  10. Web site: Mendoza. Martha. Mason. Margie. 2009-12-27. Danger at home: Rare form of TB comes to U.S.. https://web.archive.org/web/20150904012846/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/34516639/ns/health-infectious_diseases/t/danger-home-rare-form-tb-comes-us. dead. September 4, 2015. 2020-10-07. msnbc.com. en.
  11. Web site: karafyllis. 2015-03-26. AP: End slavery in Thailand's fishing fleets. 2020-10-07. New Europe. en-US.
  12. Web site: 2015-07-28. House bill to require disclosure of efforts to eliminate slave labor from supply chains. 2020-10-07. Cooley PubCo. en.
  13. Web site: Slave-Labor Loophole Closed By Senate After 8 Decades. 2020-10-07. www.fa-mag.com.
  14. Web site: Booth. Barbara. 2016-03-03. The victims of the 21st-century slave trade. 2020-10-07. CNBC. en.
  15. Web site: 2016-03-30. How the AP busted an international seafood slavery racket. 2020-10-07. Poynter. en-US.
  16. Web site: Utube. US Supply Chain Tainted by Slave-Caught Fish.
  17. Web site: AP Investigation: Are slaves catching the fish you buy?. 2020-10-07. AP NEWS.
  18. Web site: AP investigation prompts emergency rescue of 300 plus slaves. 2020-10-07. AP NEWS.
  19. Web site: US lets in Thai fish caught by slaves despite law. 2020-10-07. AP Explore: Seafood from slaves. en.
  20. Web site: 2016-04-18. Seafood from Slaves. 2020-10-07. Associated Press. en.
  21. Web site: AP Exclusive: AP tracks slave boats to Papua New Guinea. 2020-10-07. AP NEWS.
  22. Web site: AP investigation prompts new round of slave rescues. 2020-10-07. AP Explore: Seafood from slaves. en.
  23. Web site: More than 2,000 enslaved fishermen rescued in 6 months. 2020-10-07. AP Explore: Seafood from slaves. en.
  24. Web site: Global supermarkets selling shrimp peeled by slaves. 2020-10-07. AP Explore: Seafood from slaves. en.
  25. News: . Shrimp shed owners deny worker abuse. 2020-10-07. Bangkok Post.
  26. Web site: AP: Shrimp processed by slaves sold in major U.S. stores. 2020-10-07. wflx.com. en-US.
  27. News: Ferdman. Roberto A.. Don't eat that shrimp. en-US. Washington Post. 2020-10-07. 0190-8286.
  28. Web site: 01 The Hal Boyle Award Archives. 2020-10-07. OPC. en-US.
  29. Web site: AP announces winners of 2015 Oliver S. Gramling Awards. 2020-10-07. Associated Press. en.
  30. Web site: 2018-11-21. SOJC recognizes outstanding journalistic ethics with 16th annual Ancil Payne Award. 2020-10-07. School of Journalism and Communication. en-US.
  31. Web site: Barlett & Steele Awards. 2020-10-08. Reynolds Center. en-US.
  32. Web site: Inaugural Anthony Lewis Prize Award Winner Announced. 2020-10-07. World Justice Project. en.
  33. Web site: Selden Ring Previous Winners. 2020-10-08. annenberg.usc.edu. en.
  34. Web site: 2016-04-18. Martha Mendoza, Margie Mason, Robin McDowell, Esther Htusan. https://web.archive.org/web/20160625001022/http://www.kellyaward.com/2016/martha-mendoza-margie-mason-robin-mcdowell-esther-htusan/. dead. June 25, 2016. 2020-10-07. The Michael Kelly Award. en-US.
  35. Winners of the 2021 Gerald Loeb Awards Announced by UCLA Anderson in Live Virtual Event . September 30, 2021 . October 7, 2021 . . . Daillak . Jonathan.

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