April 22, 2015

Pultizer Prize winner quits journalism to pay rent

Business StandardPulitzer prize honoring his work as a journalist came a bit too late for Rob Kuznia, who had to quit the profession because it didn't pay enough to pay his rent.

Kuznia, 39, was honored yesterday for his reporting with the Daily Breeze, a 63,000 circulation newspaper in Torrance, California.

His expose about corruption in a southern California school system caught the eye of Pulitzer judges who awarded it American journalism's highest honor.

But after the award was announced, the LA Observed website reported that Kuznia had quit journalism last year and now works as a publicist for the USC Shoah Foundation -- an organization dedicated to documenting eyewitness accounts from the Holocaust and other genocides.

LA Observed, which contacted Kuznia after the prestigious award was announced, said the former reporter "admitted to a twinge of regret at no longer being a journalist, but he said it was too difficult to make ends meet on his newspaper salary while renting in the LA area."

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