Frias, Carlos

Frias, today a special projects reporter for the "Palm Beach Post", has been called one of the finest young journalists in the country. The Associated Press Sports Editors have awarded him seven top-10 awards in the past four years for his work on in-depth features and investigative stories. (The APSE award is similar to the Pulitzer for sports writers.) Among those, a Journal-Constitution three-day series examined the deaths of five high school athletes, and was submitted for a 2003 Pulitzer Prize.

A South Florida native who grew up just north of the Dade-BrowardCounty line, Frias gained t...