[LA RIOTS]. Greater Los Angeles Press Club award presented to journalist Tracy A. Wood (1943-2020).

Wood plaque, 6 x 8 in., "The Greater Los Angeles Press Club" award, presented to Tracy Wood of the Los Angeles Times "For Outstanding Dedication During the L.A. Riots / April / May 1992." The top portion of the award features the logo of the Los Angeles Press Club, a stylized image of a printer at a traditional printing press with the letters "L" and "A" on either side, and encircled in a motif evoking a camera lens.

Born 21 August 1943 in Rahway, New Jersey, Tracy Wood attended the University of Missouri majoring in geography and religion. Upon graduation she spent 15 months working for the City News Service of Los Angeles before joining UPI in Sacramento in December 1966. Wood covered the California State Assembly and the US Senate and California gubernatorial campaigns until transferring to New York City in September 1971. There she worked on the UPI Foreign Affairs desk at a time when UPI was one of the world’s largest news organizations. Woods was assigned as a staff correspondent with UPI Saigon, was a news editor in Hong Kong, and a foreign correspondent throughout Asia before returning to the United States where she became an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times.
During her 17 years as an investigative reporter at the Times, she focused on uncovering racial tensions in intercity Los Angeles and investigating suspect politicians and career bureaucrats. In addition to earning this award from the Los Angeles Press Club, she was part of the team that earned the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting for coverage of the 1992 Rodney King riots.
After working as editor-in-chief of Ms. Magazine, she continued working as an investigative reporter with various news outlets until her death in 2020.

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