Kenneth Weiss, a Los Angeles Times staff member since 1990, has covered the California coast and the oceans for six years.

This year he won the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting for the “Altered Oceans” series that describes the slow but startling transformation of the world’s ocean – mostly at the hands of human industrialism. He spoke to PRWeek about how to be an environmental reporter without becoming an activist, and sudden influx of green pitches he’s been getting.

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