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Tuesday, 19 April 2016
be honored stories that have moved much – The Pulitzer Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in journalism. Just as the search of the Associated Press, which led to the release of 2,000 slave laborers.
The US news agency AP has been awarded for research on the fishing industry in Southeast Asia with the prestigious Pulitzer Prize. The 18-month ongoing work of four AP journalists had led to the release of more than 2,000 slave laborers and the arrest of a dozen suspects, also shiploads were seized worth millions of dollars. “It was a solid year for journalism,” said Mike Pride, administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, with announcement of the winners on Monday.
The “Los Angeles Times” won in the category of news for its coverage about the armed attack on a social facility in San Bernardino, California, the “New York Times” for a report on violence against Afghan women. The employees of the “Boston Globe”, the “New Yorker” and “Tampa Bay Times” were excellent.
The AP reporter covered the use of slaves in the fishery, followed the captive of them goods to specific merchants and brought the companies concerned with their reports in distress. Among other things, the journalist hid four days back of a truck to record the names of ships that brought the goods to the country.
The Pulitzer Prizes are celebrating their 100th anniversary. Currently, there is the price in 21 categories, including drama, music, poetry and fiction – 14 divisions affecting journalism. In the field of literature, the Vietnamese author Viet Thanh Nguyen won with his spy novel “The Sympathizer” of theater, the successful musical “Hamilton”. A total of nearly 3,000 works were submitted, in journalism about 1200. ‘/ P>
Source: n-tv.de
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