Steve Marble is the former obituaries editor at the Los Angeles Times. He had also previously been an editor on the World & Nation desk and an assistant city editor on the Metro desk, where he was part of a team that won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for public service for a series of stories that uncovered massive corruption in the city of Bell.
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