[1][2] The Pulitzer Prize jury called the series "one of the largest reporting efforts in the newspaper's history" and noted that the news team had conducted over 1,000 interviews.

Corrales studied music at Whittier College and earned a bachelor's degree in photojournalism from California State University, Long Beach.

Corrales also pioneered 3D animation and created a company called Motion Graphix with former LA Times photo editor, Raleigh Souther.

[12][13] José Galvez (born 1949) first entered the Arizona Daily Star newsroom as a 10-year-old shoe shine boy and then became a regular visitor at the Tucson, Arizona-based newspaper.

The journalists at the Arizona Daily Star motivated him and Galvez learned journalism skills while growing up.

Galvez used his personal experience at photographing Mexican Americans in Tucson to illustrate the Los Angeles Times' Pulitzer Prize–winning series.

1954 – 21 October 2015)[20] graduated in 1975, from the College of Mass Communications at Texas Tech University with a bachelor's degree in journalism.

[21][22] Frank del Olmo (18 May 1948 – 19 February 2004), who won an Emmy for writing "The Unwanted," a documentary on illegal immigration was a career Los Angeles Times journalist.

Frank Del Olmo died at his desk of a heart attack at the Los Angeles Times 19 February 2004 at age 55.

Ramos received three Pulitzer Prizes over the years, including his first in 1984, prior to later additional co-wins in 1993 and 1994, respectively, for his coverage of the Rodney King verdict-stemming riots and Northridge earthquake.

He co-founded the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education and the California Chicano News Media Association.

[33][34][35] Other staff reporters were Marita Hernandez, Virginia Escalante, Al Martinez, Julio Moran, David Reyes, Nancy Rivera, Louis Sahagun and Juan Vasquez.

Other photographers included Monica Almeida, Aurelio Jose Barrera, Patrick Downs, Christine Cotter and Thomas Kelsey.