Los Angeles Times: John Carroll, an editor whose instinct for the big story and unrelenting focus on the craft of journalism guided the Los Angeles Times to new heights, including a record 13 Pulitzer Prizes in five years, died Sunday in Lexington, Ky., of Creutzfeldt-Jakob, a degenerative brain disease. He was 73. Carroll joined The Times in 2000 after a distinguished career at the Philadelphia Inquirer, Kentucky’s Lexington Herald-Leader and the Baltimore Sun. Of the 13 Pulitzers the Los Angeles Times won under Carroll, five were awarded in 2004. It was the largest number the Times ever won in a single year and the second-largest in the history of the prizes.