former Executive Editor, Columbia Journalism Review, former editor-in-chief, The Texas Tribune
National Judge

Sewell Chan was most recently the executive editor of the Columbia Journalism Review. He was editor-in-chief of The Texas Tribune from 2021 to 2024, during which time the nonprofit newsroom won its first National Magazine Award and was a Pulitzer finalist for the first time.

Before that, Chan was the deputy managing editor and editorial page editor with the Los Angeles Times. He began his career at The Washington Post and worked at The New York Times as a metro reporter, Washington correspondent, deputy op-ed editor and international news editor.

Chan received a degree in social studies from Harvard and a master's degree in political science from Oxford.