Sewell Chan was appointed executive editor of Columbia Journalism Review in September 2024. Previously he was editor in chief of The Texas Tribune. Under his leadership, the nonprofit publication shared a National Magazine Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize — both firsts for the organization. Before joining The Texas Tribune Sewell was a deputy managing editor and then the editorial page editor at the Los Angeles Times, where he oversaw coverage that was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 2021. Chan worked at the New York Times from 2004 to 2018, as a metro reporter, Washington correspondent, deputy Op-Ed editor and international news editor. He began his career as a local reporter at the Washington Post in 2000. A child of immigrants, Chan was the first in his family to graduate from college. He has a degree in social studies from Harvard and a master’s in political science from Oxford, where he studied on a British Marshall scholarship. He is a member of PEN America, the Council on Foreign Relations and numerous journalism organizations.