PULITZERS AWARDED:

Latino staffers were members of reporting teams at four newspapers that were awarded the Pulitzer Prize April 16. Associated Press photographer Alan Díaz also received the prestigious recognition.Twenty Latinos on The Miami Herald staff were members of the reporting team that won the Pulitzer for Breaking News for its coverage of the federal raid in Miami that removed Elián González from his relatives and reunited the Cuban boy with his father.

The Hispanic members of the Herald's reporting team were Manny García, Carolyn Salazar, Andrés Viglucci, Mireidy Fernández, Diana Marrero, Liz Balmaseda, Hiram Henríquez, Sandra Márquez-García, Ann Acle, Renato Pérez, Frances Robles, Fabiola Santiago, Johnny Díaz, Eunice Ponce, Beatrice García, Rui Ferreira, Draeger Martínez, Jasmine Kripalani, Gastón de Cárdenas and Nuri Vallbona.Alan Díaz of the Associated Press won a Pulitzer for his photograph of armed federal agents storming the house of Elián González's Miami relatives and seizing the boy.

Five Latiino New York Times staffers were part of that paper's Pulitzer team that won for National Reporting with its series examining U.S. racial experiences and attitudes. Included were reporters Mirta Ojito and Mia Navarro and photographers Mónica Almeida, Angel Franco and Librado Romero. Alex Rodríguez, staff writer for The Chicago Tribune, and photographer José Moré, were on the Tribune team that won for Explanatory Reporting. The paper profiled problems with the U.S. air traffic system.

Graphic artist Dan Aguayo was a member of the (Portland) Oregonian's team that won for Public Service. The paper examined systemic problems within the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, including widespread abuse against foreign nationals.