Award-winning reporter laid off

PHOENIX: More than three months after he was laid off, former East Valley Tribune reporter Paul Giblin learned on Monday that he had helped his old newspaper snag a Pulitzer Prize.

Giblin and Tribune reporter Ryan Gabrielson earned the award in the local reporting category for their coverage of the Maricopa County sheriff's immigration enforcement operations.

While he is relishing the honor, Giblin admitted he wondered what it would have been like to find out he won from within the Tribune's Mesa, Arizona, newsroom.