Landing in L.A.
Steve Lopez, the Time Inc. editor-at-large returns to the life of a newspaper columnist, this time at the Los Angeles Times.
By
Kathryn S. Wenner
Lori Robertson
Kathryn S. Wenner, a former AJR associate editor, is a copy editor at the Washington Post.
Lori Robertson (robertson.lori@gmail.com), a former AJR managing editor, is a senior contributing writer for the magazine.
After a four-year hiatus from newspapers, Steve Lopez is back. The Time Inc. editor-at-large returns to the life of a newspaper columnist, this time at the Los Angeles Times . "I missed that everything was connected to the last thing you wrote" and to the next, he says of column writing at a paper. Lopez chronicled Philadelphia for the Inquirer from 1985 to 1997 before joining Time Inc. His column in Time magazine had him jetting from state to state to capture real people1s stories. Lopez, 47, says he won't miss the airports (his last flight took an hour-and-a-half to taxi from the runway to the gate). Says Times Editor John Carroll of his new recruit: "He is a wonderful columnist who enters into an impassioned and sometimes hilarious dialogue with his city."
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