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LA Times Watch: Bob Sipchen Leaves “Current” for Web Project

L.A. Observed has the poop on Bob Sipchen and the Los Angeles Times:

To: The Staff
From: Dean Baquet

I’m pleased to announce that Bob Sipchen, one of our most creative writers and editors, will be returning to the newsroom to take on an enterprise project that we’ll announce early next year. When Bob left last year to remake Sunday Opinion, I told him privately that I would likely try to lure him back. I have done so.

Bob has worked across the paper. After winning the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing with Alex Raksin in 2002, he moved to Features, where he created the Outdoors section, which I still maintain was one of the most inventive feature sections around.

Bob has a range of interests, which will figure in his next project. Most intriguingly, he has thoughts about two parts of the paper that will figure prominently in our near future — the web site and California.

One of the bright stars of the Times, Flap met him last April at LA Press Club event with Hugh Hewitt and Roger Simon.

Flap wishes him well in his new and challenging projects with the LA Times.