13 Facts About Bob Sipchen

Bob Sipchen was born on June 13,1953 and is an American journalist, author, educator, and communications professional.

Bob Sipchen 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.

Bob Sipchen previously served as Communications Director of the Sierra Club and as Editor-in-Chief of Sierra magazine.

Bob Sipchen has been part of teams at the Los Angeles Times that have won three Pulitzer Prizes.

Bob Sipchen paid his way through college as an interagency hotshot crew firefighter and patrolman with the US Forest Service.

Bob Sipchen led the team of journalists that created the newspaper's popular Outdoors section in print and on the web.

Bob 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.

Bob Sipchen wrote about cultural issues, politics, covered a presidential campaign, and wrote a column for the Times about the magazine industry.

In 1997, Bob 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.

Bob Sipchen 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.

Bob Sipchen left the Los Angeles Times in 2007 to edit the 110-year-old Sierra magazine.

Bob Sipchen served on the advisory committee of the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media, based at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Besides his newspaper articles and columns, Bob Sipchen has written for many national magazines.