The year was 1984. A group of Chicano reporters at the LA Times pushed to provide a new perspective on California's Latino population - something more than the poverty, gangs, and crime that the newspaper usually covered. Their reporting won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service that year. This groundbreaking series offered an in-depth examination of southern California's growing Latino community and was one of the first to accurately represent it. Prior to this prize winning series, a distorted view of Latinos had been perpetuated in the media, a view which is still perpetuated today. These journalists set out to change that while becoming an important voice in telling the story of the underrepresented Latino community in California.
—Anonymous