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Topic: Memos Sent to Romenesko
Date/Time: 2/14/2007 2:48:55 PM
Title: LeDuff leaving NYT
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
Memo to New York Times staffers

Charlie LeDuff Departing

After 11 years, Charlie LeDuff is leaving The Times and going on a book tour. Suzanne Daley explains it in her note to the newsroom.

Charlie LeDuff, who has been on paternity leave for the last few weeks, has decided to leave the paper. He came to The Times in 1996, writing cover stories for The City weekly on subjects like a cocaine addict trying to get straight and a gay couple, partners since 1947, growing old together.

Jon Landman remembers him driving all night from Detroit to offer feeds and vignettes at the crash of Flight 587 on Long Island. Susan Edgerley remembers him racing, with Betsy Wade and Randy Kennedy, from the White House to City Hall to test the fastest mode of transportation between the two cities. Betsy took the shuttle. Randy took what was then the new Acela. Charlie drove. Together, they proved planes are faster than trains and cars are the slowest of all.

Charlie was part of the team that won the Pulitzer for the "How Race is Lived in America" series. He moved to L.A. in 2002, covering Bob Hope turning 100, Arnold Schwarzenegger's run for the governership and the Michael Jackson trial. He wrote a Page 1 story about rats in Beverly Hills. Then he moved to video and during the second half of 2006, took his creativity in a new direction, helping us all learn a lot about what it takes to simultaneously produce a feature for the paper and a video component for the Web through American Album.

He's touring with his new book, "Us Guys." We wish him well.

Suzanne Daley
[Times national editor]

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