Diana Marcum forged a career, and a life, by giving a voice to Californians whom many people didn’t take time to notice. Marcum, a former Los Angeles Times reporter who won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, died Wednesday night, according to her friend Janet Sluis. By the fourth grade, she would later recall, she told her family she wanted to become a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. While still a freelancer, she made the front page of The Times 14 times in just one year. In her final months at The Times, Marcum had become, if anything, more defiant in the face of increasingly noxious politics and the worldwide pandemic.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 10, 2023 17:26 UTC