… Hollywood in 1987 won a Pulitzer Prize. At the Times, he has been an editor of national politics, higher education and religion before taking his current role. He also headed Metpro, the Times’ training program to bring diversity to newsrooms. Padilla’s father was ELAC’s championship football coach and Padilla maintains a close relationship … He is on the advisory committee of the ELAC Journalism Department. In his acceptance speech, Padilla said was excited that his ELAC journalism professor Jean Stapleton was in attendance. Stapleton, who is still teaching at ELAC, said she was …