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Bob Sipchen is an American journalist and writer, currently the Communications Director of the Sierra Club, America's oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization. Sipchen writes for and serves as Editor-in-Chief of Sierra magazine, a national publication with a circulation of approximately 600,000. When he was Associate Editor of the Los Angeles Times editorial pages, he and colleague Alex Raskin won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing citing "their comprehensive and powerfully written editorials exploring the issues and dilemmas provoked by mentally ill people dwelling on the streets." Sipchen was also a member of the LA Times team that covered the 1992 Los Angeles riots and won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Reporting in 1993.
Sipchen was born in Chicago. He paid his way through college as a hotshot wildland firefighter and patrolman with the U.S. Forest Service, was graduated cum laude from the University of California, Santa Barbara, which granted him the school's Distinguished Alumni Award in 2006. At UCSB he was a student and protégé of influential journalist and educator Barry Farrell.
His career at the Times included serving as editor of the Sunday Opinion section and senior editor of the Times's Sunday magazine He led the team of journalists that created the newspaper's popular Outdoors section in print and on the web. As a reporter he covered the 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 that reportage. Sipchen published the first profile of Reginald Denny, the motorist whose televised beating on the corner of Florence and Normandy became an icon of the inchoate rage vented during the riots.
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