Pulitzer winner quits journalism to pay rent
For those who may have missed it, today was the day in which journalism’s biggest prizes are awarded.
The Pulitzer Prize is about the biggest accolade you can win as a journalist.
Unfortunately for one of today’s winners, he no longer gets to call himself one.
Rob Kuznia is very possibly the world’s only working Pulitzer Prize winning publicist, having been forced out of the journalism game in an effort to pay the bills.
Kuznia’s and Rebecca Kimitch’s series for the Daily Breeze, a small Torrance, California, based publication, was the surprise winner of the local reporting award for their work uncovering rampant corruption in a local school district.
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Kuznia, a 15 year veteran reporter was co-credited with the series which led to state law changes and the prestigious award.
Now though he works as a publicist for the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation, Gawker reports.
Kuznia reportedly told LA Observed that he now felt some regret at having left the business but said it was too difficult to continue to pay the rent in the LA area on newspaper wages.
The Daily Breeze employs just seven journalists and has a reported readership of about 63,000.
Kuznia’s win and exit from the journalism industry comes against a backdrop of a newspaper industry in trouble world wide.
The rise of the internet has seen many papers struggle to make ends meet, resulting in poor wages and job losses for many attempting to ply their trade.
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