Thursday, May 10, 2007
News Sack is back at the NYT's ATL bureau
Posted by Mara Shalhoup on Thu, May 10, 2007 at 7:53 PM
Kevin Sack, the Pulitzer-winning New York Times Atlanta bureau chief turned Pulitzer-winning Los Angeles Times Atlanta national correspondent, has returned to the Times — er, the NY one.
He tells CL that as an Atlanta national correspondent for the N.Y. Times, he'll be covering "health care reform and the health care crisis."
Sack left the N.Y. Times in 2002, unhappy with then-editor Howell Raines' decision to reassign him to the Washington, D.C. bureau. (He has a young daughter in Atlanta to whom he wished to remain close.) Rather than leave the ATL, Sack signed on as the L.A. paper's man in Atlanta — and promptly won his second Pulitzer for his and Alan Miller's 2002 series on a military aircraft dubbed "The Widow Maker," a vertical take-off Harrier jet that was linked to the deaths of nearly four dozen pilots.
"Oddly enough," Sack says, "the Harrier story was my first story for them."
(While at the N.Y. Times, Sack had earned the Pulitzer for his contribution to the 15-author 2000 series, "How Race Is Lived in America.")
With the recent resignations of two L.A. Times editors, John Carroll and Dean Baquet — who quit in protest of a corporate push to further downsize the paper's staff — the L.A. paper had, according to various accounts, become a dismal place to hang one's hat.
Sack says his departure from the paper was "precipitated more by the general instability at the L.A. Times. Certainly, Dean’s departure and the departure of John Carroll before him and the departure of two publishers are part of that, and the recent sale of the company."
Asked whether he'll remain in Atlanta, Sack says, "There’s a general understanding that I’ll be here for a while."
As long as he keeps filing his top-notch investigative stories from Atlanta, it's no loss for us.
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