Newsletter: The Times’ 49th Pulitzer Prize spurs a look back at award-winning ‘Latinos’ series

Bottom row, from left: David Reyes, Virginia Escalante and Louis Sahagún. Back row, from left: George Ramos, Noel Greenwood, Frank Sotomayor, Frank del Olmo, José Galvez and Robert Montemayor at the Pulitzer ceremony at Columbia University. Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter . It’s Friday, May 13. I’m Robert J. Lopez, writing from Los Angeles.

The stellar journalism of the Los Angeles Times was honored this week when my colleague Marcus Yam won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for his powerful and moving images of the fall of Kabul to the Taliban last summer. The Times was also named a finalist in the breaking news category for its coverage of the accidental shooting death of a cinematographer on the set of the low-budget western “Rust.”

Yam’s award was the 49th Pulitzer Prize for The Times since 1942, including six gold medals for public service, which is […]

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