PHOENIX, AZ (June 20, 2008) – Angela Pancrazio, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist who later became a writer and video storyteller, died yesterday at her home in Phoenix, the Arizona Republic reported this morning. She was 51.
Pancrazio was a member of the Oakland Tribune team that won a 1990 Pulitzer for their coverage of the Bay Area earthquake of October, 1989.
After working for The Oregonian in Portland, the San Jose Mercury News, and the Oakland Tribune, Pancrazio joined the staff of the Arizona Republic in 1999. She first joined NPPA in 1981.
The Republic says Pancrazio was diagnosed with an aggressive type of brain cancer in 2007, and that she died surrounded by family and friends. An avid gardener, more than a dozen gardens have been planted in her honor, the newspaper reports.
