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Charles J. Hanley, Associated Press special correspondent

Charles J. Hanley is a journalist and author who reported for the Associated Press (AP) for over 40 years. In 2000, he and two AP colleagues won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for their work confirming the U.S. military’s massacre of South Korean refugees at No Gun Ri during the Korean War.

Early life

Hanley graduated from St. Bonaventure University in 1968 with a journalism degree. He served in the U.S. Army as an Army journalist in wartime Vietnam.[1]

Journalism career

Hanley joined the AP in 1968,[2] working the international desk and reporting on subjects ranging from wars[3] and summit conferences[4] to climate change in the Arctic[5] In 1987 he served as AP assistant and then deputy managing editor in 1988.[6][7]

No Gun Ri

In 1998, Hanley and reporters Choe Sang-hun and Martha Mendoza, assisted by researcher Randy Herschaft, confirmed that the U.S. military massacred South Korean refugees – an estimated 250–300, the South Korean government later concluded – near No Gun Ri, South Korea, in late July 1950. The AP team had located a dozen U.S. Army veterans, witnesses, who corroborated the account of Korean survivors. The reporters also uncovered declassified archival U.S. military documents ordering the shooting of civilians, out of fear of enemy infiltrators.[8]

The story was not published until September 1999, after a year-long struggle with an AP leadership reluctant to run such an explosive report.[9] The AP team subsequently won 11 major journalism awards, including the Pulitzer[10] and a Polk Award.[11]

Awards

In addition to the honors for the No Gun Ri reporting, Hanley’s other journalism won awards from the Overseas Press Club, the Associated Press Managing Editors association, Brown University’s Feinstein media awards program, the Korn Ferry awards for reporting on the United Nations, and the Society of Environmental Journalists.[2][12]

Books

In 2001, Henry Holt and Company published The Bridge at No Gun Ri, a narrative recounting of the 1950 massacre and events before and after, written by Hanley with the reporting assistance of his AP partners.[13]

In August 2020, PublicAffairs, an imprint of Perseus Books Group, is to publish Hanley’s Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953, a narrative history of the entire Korean War, told through the experiences of 20 individuals who lived through it, civilians and soldiers of several nationalities involved. An underlying theme is the little-known “dark underside” of wartime atrocities.[14][15][16]

Earlier in his career, Hanley co-authored World War II: A 50th Anniversary History (Henry Holt); 20th Century America (Grolier Educational), and FLASH! The Associated Press Covers the World (Abrams).

References

  1. ^ Kellogg, Kathy; Webster, Terry (2000-04-13). "St. Bonaventure Boasts Fifth Pulitzer Prize Winner". Buffalo News.
  2. ^ a b "SBU grad and Pulitzer winner to speak on 9/11 about AP coverage of war". Inside Bona's. St. Bonaventure University. 2007-08-23.
  3. ^ Hanley, Charles J. (2003-04-30). "U.S. Troops, Religion a Fiery Mix in Iraq". Midland (Michigan) Daily News. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  4. ^ Hanley, Charles J. (2009-12-19). "Analysis: Obama climate 'accord' is thin, toothless, but may prove small step on long road". CTV News.
  5. ^ Hanley, Charles J. (2009-08-31). "Climate trouble may be bubbling up in far north". ABC News.
  6. ^ "Charles J. Hanley Named AP's Assistant Managing Editor". The Associated Press. New York. 1987-10-20.
  7. ^ "New Posts: Charles J. Hanley to deputy managing editor". The AP World: 12–13. 1988.
  8. ^ Choe, Sang-hun; Hanley, Charles J.; Mendoza, Martha (1999-09-29). "War's hidden chapter: Ex-GIs tell of killing Korean refugees". The Associated Press. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  9. ^ Port, J. Robert (2002). "The Story No One Wanted to Hear". In Kristina Borjesson (ed.). Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books. pp. 201–13. ISBN 978-1-57392-972-1.
  10. ^ "The Pulitzer Prizes". 2000.
  11. ^ "Past Polk Winners/Long Island University". Retrieved 2020-05-24.
  12. ^ "Winners: SEJ 9th Annual Awards for Reporting on the Environment". Society of Environmental Journalists. 5 August 2010. Retrieved 2020-05-14.
  13. ^ "The Bridge at No Gun Ri: A Hidden Nightmare from the Korean War". The New Yorker. October 29, 2001. Retrieved 2012-09-12.
  14. ^ "A top-notch addition to the literature on the Korean War". Kirkus Reviews. 2020-03-15.
  15. ^ "Ghost Flames". Publishers Weekly. 2020-05-15. An essential account of America's 'forgotten war'.
  16. ^ "Ghost Flames". Library Journal. May 2020. An extraordinary kaleidoscope of human experiences in a catastrophic forgotten war.
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