Reporter Loretta Tofani gets inside America's factory, China, where the lack of health and safety precautions has Chinese workers dying.
Loretta Tofani discusses her four-part series on C-Span
Published October 26, 2007
On October 26, 2007, freelance journalist Loretta Tofani appeared on C-SPAN'S Washington Journal to discuss her four-part series, "American Imports, Chinese Deaths," which appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune this week (Sunday-Wednesday). While living in China over a 12-month period, Ms. Tofani visited more than 25 factories and observed firsthand how Chinese workers routinely lose their health and their lives making products for export to the United States. She is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and her travel in China was funded through a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting in Washington, D.C.
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Loretta Tofani was awarded $2,000 by a five judge panel at the Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting for her "American Imports, Chinese Deaths" reporting project
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Loretta Tofani is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter with more than 25 years of experience, including nine at The Washington Post and 14 at The Philadelphia Inquirer. She was a...
