Diana Marcum, an LA Times writer, has been awarded the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.
Her piece on the California drought, beat out a Boston Globe article on a rare whale and a New Yorker recreation of a young man’s imprisonment. "Scene from California’s Dust Bowl" covered farming issues around the valley, including Porterville’s water shortage and Madera almond orchards.
Marcum used to write for the Fresno Bee.