Martha Mendoza, Date of Birth
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press journalist
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About Martha Mendoza
- Martha Mendoza (born August 16, 1966) is an Associated Press journalist whose reporting has helped free over 2,000 enslaved fishermen and prompted action by the U.S.
- Congress and the White House.
- She earned her first Pulitzer Prize in the Investigative Reporting category in 2000 as part of a team of Associated Press (AP) journalists that uncovered the massacre of Korean civilians by U.S.
- soldiers at the No Gun Ri bridge during the Korean War.
- Her second Pulitzer in 2016, for reporting that revealed seafood widely available in U.S.
- stores was being processed by slave labor in Southeast Asia, was the AP's first Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in its history.
- Mendoza is currently an AP national reporter based in Northern California and a member of AP's Global Investigative Team.
- She has specialized in reporting on human trafficking in Asia since 2015.
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