In a year when most prizes went to big-name news institutions, there were a couple of exceptions. Preston Gannaway of the Concord (N.H.) Monitor won the feature photography prize for her chronicle of a family coping with the mother's terminal illness. And David Umhoefer of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel won the local reporting award for stories about the padding of pensions for county employees.
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Washington Post leads pack with 6 Pulitzers
Walter Reed hospital and Virginia Tech stories net prizes.
THE NATION
For The Record
Los Angeles Times Wednesday, April 09, 2008 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 1 inches; 37 words Type of Material: Correction
Pulitzer Prizes: A photograph in Section A on Tuesday that accompanied an article announcing winners of the 92nd Pulitzer Prizes identified Leonard Downie Jr. as managing editor of the Washington Post. Downie is the newspaper's executive editor.
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The Los Angeles Times had finalists in two categories: feature writing, where reporter Thomas Curwen was recognized for his account of a grizzly bear attack and its two victims' recovery; and breaking news photography, where The Times staff was cited for "its powerful and often unpredictable" pictures of last year's Southern California wildfires.
Ramirez, who won his second Pulitzer Prize, was dropped as the Los Angeles Times' regular editorial cartoonist in 2005. Like many newspapers, The Times no longer employs a regular cartoonist.
Ramirez, 46, said Monday that he was "sad" to no longer be at The Times and that he hoped the ranks of editorial cartoonists would one day be replenished.
He added that he was proud to bring the first Pulitzer to Investor's Business Daily, which he said was filled with "very smart people . . . and the best editorial page in the country."
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james.rainey@latimes.com
