WVU alumna Margie Mason (BSJ, 1997) was on a seven-hour flight from Jakarta to a small city called Tual near the eastern edge of the Indonesian islands. When she arrived, the Associated Press Asia regional writer would meet hundreds of men, mostly from Myanmar, also known as Burma, who were so driven to earn their livelihood that they followed recruiters — who claimed to offer decent pay — onto Thai boats where they were enslaved. She wanted to change that. So she and her team told their story and by now more than 2,000 fishermen have been freed. Read the incredible true story of investigative journalism that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize at WVU Magazine online.
Margie Mason and her colleagues will discuss the project during their presentation, “Seafood from Slaves: From Investigation to Pulitzer Prize” on Monday, Oct. 10 at 7 p.m. in the Mountainlair Ballrooms.