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| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois| occupation = Writer| language = English| nationality = American| education = University of California, Santa Barbara (B.A. 1976)| period = 1980–| genre = | subject = | notableworks = Los Angeles Times| spouse = Pamela Jean Sipchen| children = 3Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing (2002)Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting>Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting (staff, 1993)| signature = | years_active = 1980–| website = }}Bob Sipchen (born June 13, 1953)"The 2002 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Editorial Writing". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-18. With list of biographical facts and reprints of ten works (LA Times articles April 23 to November 22, 2001). is an American journalist, author, educator, and communications professional. He is currently a Senior Editor at the Los Angeles Times and an adjunct professor in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at Occidental College in Los Angeles. He previously served as Communications Director of the Sierra Club and as Editor-in-Chief of Sierra magazine.WEB,weblink BOB SIPCHEN, sierraclub.org, March 2, 2015, WEB,weblink ABOUT SIERRA MAGAZINE, sierraclub.org, March 2, 2015, He has been part of teams at the Los Angeles Times that have won three Pulitzer Prizes.

Early life and education

Sipchen was born in Chicago. He paid his way through college as an interagency hotshot crew firefighter and patrolman with the U.S. Forest Service.WEB,weblink Bob Sipchen Lights Out for the Territory–As Sierra EIC, May 29, 2007, adweek.com, March 2, 2015, He graduated with a B.A. in 1976 from the University of California, Santa Barbara, which granted him the school's Distinguished Alumni Award in 2006.WEB,weblink Distinguished Alumni Award, ucsbalum.com, March 2, 2015,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150319214608weblink">weblink 2015-03-19, dead,

Career at the Los Angeles Times

His career at the Times has included serving as editor of the Sunday Opinion section and senior editor of the Los Angeles Times Magazine.NEWS, Sipchen, Bob, December 25, 2005, Can we get dazzling done?,weblink Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, March 2, 2015, NEWS, Sipchen, Bob, December 19, 1999, Can L.A. Become Leadership Land?,weblink Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, March 2, 2015, He led the team of journalists that created the newspaper's popular Outdoors section in print and on the web.NEWS, Sipchen, Bob, September 9, 2003, Editor's Welcome,weblink Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, March 2, 2015, As a reporter, Sipchen covered the 1992 Los Angeles riots that erupted in Los Angeles following the trial of police officers involved in the beating of motorist Rodney King and shared in the newspaper's Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting in 1993 for that reportage. Sipchen published the first profile of Reginald Denny, the motorist whose nationally televised attack became an icon of the inchoate rage vented during the riots.NEWS, Sipchen, Bob, December 24, 1992, Denny--Beaten but Unbowed : The trucker assaulted at Florence and Normandie has mended quickly. He talks about his experience with self-deprecating humor. But he remains awed by the good and evil he has seen.,weblink Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, March 2, 2015, When he was Associate Editor of the Los Angeles Times editorial pages, he and colleague Alex Raksin won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 2002. The Pulitzer committee cited "their comprehensive and powerfully written editorials exploring the issues and dilemmas provoked by mentally ill people dwelling on the streets."Sipchen also wrote about cultural issues, politics, covered a presidential campaign, and wrote a column for the Times about the magazine industry.NEWS, Sipchen, Bob, November 17, 2006, Rounds of sadness and joy,weblink Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, March 2, 2015, NEWS, Sipchen, Bob, November 1, 1994, Tracking the Mystical Traveler : The church founded by John-Roger has sparked controversy over some of its teachings, now-defunct gala awards and a peace retreat near Santa Barbara. Now it is in the news because of Arianna Huffington.,weblink Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, March 2, 2015, NEWS, Sipchen, Bob, January 21, 1996, Dole Takes a Bus Ride With MTV,weblink Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, March 2, 2015, In 1997, Sipchen loaded his wife and three children into a 26-foot motorhome and drove 22,000 miles through 46 states, including Alaska, writing twice-a-week columns about the state of the American family.NEWS, Sipchen, Bob, September 2, 1997, Seems Early to Wrangle With This Transition,weblink Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, March 2, 2015, In 2003, he wrote a personal essay about watching Southern California's devastating wildfires destroy his childhood home.NEWS, Sipchen, Bob, November 6, 2003, The snapshots that survived,weblink Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, March 2, 2015, In 2006 he created the "School Me" column and multimedia "School Me!" blog which explored education issues.WEB,weblink LA Times also adds a familiar editor, Roderick, Kevin, November 13, 2014, laobserved.com, March 2, 2015, He worked as an editor on the team that won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for coverage of the 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}}

Sierra Club

Sipchen left the Los Angeles Times in 2007 to edit the 110-year-old Sierra magazine. In 2009 he was promoted to Communications Director for the organization, overseeing a national staff of more than 60 multimedia professionals responsible for the club's messaging, branding, advocacy journalism, social media communications, press relations and public affairs.

Teaching

An adjunct professor at Occidental College in Los Angeles since 1997, Sipchen teaches news writing and a communications class, "Rhetorical Fault Lines," in the fall and narrative non-fiction in the spring, using a team teaching approach that has included as many as eight Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists in a calendar year.Sipchen served on the advisory committee of the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media, based at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Published works

Besides his newspaper articles and columns, Sipchen has written for many national magazines. He has written one published book, Baby Insane and the Buddha (Doubleday, 1992, {{ISBN|978-0-385-41997-0}}), a nonfiction account of gang violence in southern California."Baby insane and the buddha"{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2013-11-18. A New York Times book review called it "... first rate ... Sipchen's supple, muscular prose gives the book the sweep and narrative pacing of a novel."NEWS, Ross, Michael E., May 2, 1993, IN SHORT: NONFICTION,weblink The New York Times, New York City, New York (state), New York, March 2, 2015,

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External links

• Occidental College faculty biography

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