Zucchino was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in the Feature Writing category in 1989 for his series Being Black in South Africa, written for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
[4] It was described as "a gripping account of the overthrow of the elected government of a Black-majority North Carolina city after Reconstruction that untangles a complicated set of power dynamics cutting across race, class and gender.
[4] Zucchino is a four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist for coverage of Lebanon,[6] Africa,[5] inner-city Philadelphia,[6] and Iraq.
He is also the author of the books Myth of the Welfare Queen (1997) and Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad (2004).
[7] Zucchino was a foreign and national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times from 2001 to 2016, focusing on Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.