A grand night for journalism

At the centennial awards dinner, AP Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll and the reporters who exposed slavery in the fishing industry in Southeast Asia, Margie Mason, Robin McDowell, Martha Mendoza and Esther Htusan, accepted the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

AP’sinternational investigationfreed more than 2,000 slaves and traced the seafood they caught to supermarkets and pet food providers across the U.S.

The

Pulitzer for Public Service

was awarded to AP for reporting that “brought perpetrators to justice and inspired reforms.”

The award was

announced in April

. This is AP’s 52nd Pulitzer Prize.

The complete list of winners and their work is available with the link:

http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/2016