Congratualtions to the reporters and editors at the Los Angeles Times for winning a 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Community Service. This was for the paper’s outstanding coverage of corruption in the City of Bell.
Jeff Gotlieb and Ruben Vives won for the series — “Breach of Faith” which also captured an IRE medal, a George Polk Award (for local reporting), the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting and the Los Angeles Press Club’s Public Service Award.