Sewell Chan is an editor, writer and innovator who has held senior editing positions at the Columbia Journalism Review, The Texas Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times. He began his career in 2000 as a local reporter at the Washington Post, where he wrote about city government and also helped cover 9/11 and the Iraq War. Chan has also written for The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Wall Street Journal and Nieman Reports.

Sewell is now a senior fellow at the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy.