A Pulitzer Prize Winner Has Quit Journalism for PR

He needed more money.

Rob Kuznia has reached a high point in the journalism profession, having won a Pulitzer Prize (along with Rebecca Kimitch) for covering corruption in the Torrance, CA school district in the Daily Breeze. But the profession has lost this talented reporter. Kuznia has left journalism to become a publicist. The reason for the career change is one heard often: money.

He currently works in the comms department at USC Shoah Foundation; Kuznia made the shift last year. According to LA Observed, “[H]e said it was too difficult to make ends meet on his newspaper salary while renting in the LA area.”

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