Esther Htusan, a Myanmar journalist from Kachin State, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service journalism alongside three of her colleagues from the Associated Press, Margie Mason, Robin McDowell and Martha Mendoza, for ‘an investigation of severe labour abuses tied to the supply of seafood to American supermarkets and restaurants, reporting that freed 2,000 slaves, brought perpetrators to justice and inspired reforms.’ according to the announcement on the Pulitzer website.

Htusan is thought to be the first Myanmar journalist, and almost certainly the first Kachin journalist, to take home the prize.