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Sewell Chan

Editor in Chief
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Sewell Chan has been The Texas Tribune’s editor in chief since October 2021. During his tenure the Tribune won its first National Magazine Award and was a Pulitzer finalist and a Peabody finalist for the first time. Previously he 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.

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