Martha Mendoza ( born March 11 , 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
No Gun Ri bridge
No Gun Ri massacre
Martha Mendoza