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Robert Lopez leaves the LA Times

September 3, 2014 by Veronica Villafañe

Award-winning reporter Robert Lopez is saying good-bye to the Los Angeles Times after a 22 year career at the paper. His last day is tomorrow, September 4.

Robert has accepted a job as Director of Communications for California State University Los Angeles. He starts the new gig September 15.

“It was not an easy decision to leave the L.A. Times. But it was time for a change, and it is the right decision,” Robert tells Media Moves. “I’ll be working at a great public university where a majority of the students are Latino. So I’ll be continuing the public service that marked much of my news career.”

During his lengthy career at the LAT, he was part of the paper’s investigative team for more than a decade.

For the past five years, he helped run the breaking news blog LA Now, where he says he was able to refine his social and digital media skills.

Robert is also one of the reporters from the investigative team that won the 2011 Pulitzer Medal for Public Service for exposing corruption in the city of Bell.

“It’s one of the projects of which I’m most proud,” he says. “I’m also proud of working a number of stories about the tragic death of Rubén Salazar.”

Before the LAT, Robert spent 3 years as a reporter at the Oakland Tribune.

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Filed Under: People, TV & Radio Tagged With: Los Angeles Times, Robert Lopez

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  1. Ander says

    September 3, 2014 at 5:21 PM

    Veronica and Roberto together. Veronica, I didn’t know you were in charge of this website. Robert is a very nice guy and a great journalist. I’m sorry he’s leaving the LA Times!!!

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Veronica Villafañe, Editor & Publisher

Emmy award-winning journalist and former president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ). Currently a reporter for Voice of America, she has worked as an on-air reporter, anchor, writer and producer for Spanish and English-language TV, print and online media, including Univision, Telemundo, Fox 11 News in L.A. and the San Jose Mercury News.

Hispanic media and entertainment contributor to Forbes.

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