Washington: A Pulitzer prize honoring his&nbsp;work as a journalist came a bit too late for Rob Kuznia, who&nbsp;had to quit the profession because it didn't pay enough.&nbsp;
Kuznia, 39, was honored yesterday for his reporting with&nbsp;the Daily Breeze, a 63,000 circulation newspaper in Torrance,&nbsp;California.
His expose about corruption in a southern California&nbsp;school system caught the eye of Pulitzer judges who awarded it&nbsp;American journalism's highest honour.
But after the award was announced, the LA Observed website&nbsp;reported that Kuznia quit journalism last year and now works&nbsp;as a publicist for the USC Shoah Foundation -- an organisation&nbsp;dedicated to documenting eyewitness accounts from the&nbsp;Holocaust and other genocides.
LA Observed, which contacted Kuznia after the prestigious&nbsp;award was announced, said the former reporter "admitted to a&nbsp;twinge of regret at no longer being a journalist, but he said&nbsp;it was too difficult to make ends meet on his newspaper salary&nbsp;while renting in the LA area."
In another interview on the Shoah Foundation website,&nbsp;Kuznia ruled out a return to his former profession, and&nbsp;expressed satisfaction in working on "global issues of the&nbsp;highest magnitude," such as the fight against genocide and for&nbsp;greater tolerance.
"I'm very excited to be playing on a bigger stage," Kuznia&nbsp;said.
The Pulitzer committee, in announcing the award, hailed&nbsp;the Daily Breeze's "inquiry into widespread corruption in a&nbsp;small, cash-strapped school district, including impressive use&nbsp;of the paper's website."
First awarded in 1917, Pulitzer Prizes honor work&nbsp;published by US news organisations, or of American authors and&nbsp;composers.

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