''Latinos'' is a 27-part newspaper series on southern California's Latino community and culture of the early 1980s. The ''Los Angeles Times'' won the 1984Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for the series. The winning team of two editors and 11 reporters and photographers who were all of Mexican American descent were the first Hispanics or Latinos to win the award.
The Pulitzer Prize jury called the series "one of the largest reporting efforts in the newspaper's history" and noted that the news team had conducted over 1,000 interviews. The story of the newspaper series is the subject of the 2007 documentary ''Below the Fold''.
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''Latinos'' is a 27-part newspaper series on southern California's Latino community and culture of the early 1980s. The ''Los Angeles Times'' won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for the series. The winning team of two editors and 11 reporters and photographers who were all of Mexican American descent were the first Hispanics or Latinos to win the award.
The Pulitzer Prize jury called the series "one of the largest reporting efforts in the newspaper's history" and noted that the news team had conducted over 1,000 interviews. The story of the newspaper series is the subject of the 2007 documentary ''Below the Fold''.
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