Mark Porubcansky is the lead editor on “American Creations,” Round Earth Media’s project to cover Islamic art and culture in the U.S. Mark, former foreign editor of the Los Angeles Times, has been a correspondent, editor and analyst of international news for 35 years. In an 11-year career as a correspondent for The Associated Press, he was based in Moscow, Vienna and Hong Kong. At the Los Angeles Times, he was the lead editor on global projects that won major U.S. journalism awards, shaped coverage of news events and managed correspondents on five continents. Times correspondents reporting to Porubcansky were finalists for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting for their coverage of the Syrian civil war.