Manuel Perez, who won a Pulitzer Prize and was widely respected at CNN for his thoughtful newsroom leadership, died Monday following a struggle with cancer. He was 57.
Manuel Perez found a new hobby after moving to north Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains late in his life. He became an amateur landscaper, planting Japanese maples and other perennials in his yard while creating a moon garden where pale-hued flowers reflect moonlight.
It was a dramatic change from the frantic pace of Perez's career in newsrooms as a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former Editorial Director at CNN Digital. But the slower rhythms of planting, pruning and watching things blossom seemed to calm and delight him. "Those were extraordinary gardens he built in the last three to five years," said Mitch Gelman, a former CNN senior vice president and executive producer who worked with Perez for much of his career.
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