Jimmy Carter, a peanut farmer and little-known Georgia governor who became the 39th president of the United States, promising “honest and decent” government to Watergate-weary Americans, and later returned to the world stage as an influential human rights advocate and Nobel Peace Prize winner, has died. He was 100.
Scott Kraft is editor at large for enterprise journalism and special projects at the Los Angeles Times, where he oversees investigations, standards and practices and newsroom-wide reporting initiatives. During four decades at The Times, Kraft has been managing editor, deputy managing editor/news and national editor, as well as a foreign and national correspondent. He has directed reporting efforts that have won nine Pulitzer Prizes. As a reporter, he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in feature writing while a national correspondent for the Associated Press before joining The Times. He spent a decade abroad as The Times’ bureau chief in Nairobi, Johannesburg and Paris. He covered the release of Nelson Mandela and the end of apartheid, among other major stories. His story for the L.A. Times magazine on the AIDS epidemic in Africa won the SPJ Distinguished Service Award for Foreign Correspondence and his reporting from Haiti won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for international reporting. He has served as both a juror and chair of the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting. He also was a Pulitzer Prize juror in international reporting in 2014 and subsequently chaired five Pulitzer juries: Public Service in 2015, International Reporting in 2020, Explanatory Reporting in 2021, Illustrated Reporting and Commentary in 2022 and Editorial Writing in 2023. He is currently president of the Overseas Press Club of America. Kraft was born in Kansas City, Mo., and has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Kansas State University.
Mark E. Potts is the senior editor for video at the Los Angeles Times. A native of Enid, Okla., Potts graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a master’s degree in broadcast journalism. He has created and edited video for DreamWorks, YouTube, Microsoft, Sony and BET.
