LA reporter leaving WSJ

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Peter Sanders, a reporter in the Los Angeles bureau of The Wall Street Journal, said goodbye to his colleagues on Friday.

In a note to the staff, Sanders wrote, “My most excellent adventure at the Journal comes to an end today. The past seven years have been a fantastic ride, but new opportunities beckon. Also, I ran out of business cards recently and re-ordering them is always a drag. It’s often mentioned in these bittersweet notes that the people at the Journal are what make the job so rewarding. I’ll endorse this view wholeheartedly.

“I’ve been fortunate enough to spend my entire WSJ tenure in the colonial outpost of Los Angeles. It’s been a pleasure and an honor to work alongside my colleagues (both present and past) in the LA buro; a finer group of journalists you’d be hard-pressed to find. I have also benefited from the talents of many other reporters and editors spread throughout the Journal and Dow Jones empire. Many of you even kindly gave me the first byline.

“It’s a rare job that allows one to travel the world, talk to people and then type it all up in a Microsoft Word document that eventually makes its way onto the Web and into the planet’s finest newspaper. It’s a pretty neat trick and I am grateful to have been a part of it. Please take care of yourselves and each other and keep in touch.”

Sanders covered the hotel and casino industry during his time at the Journal. More recently, he covered commercial aerospace.