April 17, 2007
Bowling
Green, Ky. - Western Kentucky University photojournalism graduate Rick Loomis was honored Monday as part of a Pulitzer Prize winning team at the Los Angeles Times.
Loomis and reporters Kenneth R. Weiss and Usha Lee McFarling won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting for
“Altered Oceans,” a five-part series of print and online reports on the world’s distressed oceans. The project (available online at http://www.latimes.com/news/local/oceans/la-oceans-series,0,7842752.special) revealed how mankind has choked the oceans with trash, nitrogen, carbon and other pollutants.
Loomis, a 1994 WKU graduate, recently was honored in the National Press Photographers Association’s Best of Photojournalism 2007 for his work on the project and recently won the Scripps Howard Foundation’s national photojournalism award for a portfolio that included his environmental work.
More than two dozen WKU alumni have been part of 19 Pulitzer Prize winning projects. WKU has honored those alumni with a Pulitzer Wall of Fame at Mass Media and Technology Hall.
For more on the Pulitzer Prizes, visit http://www.pulitzer.org/
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