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Sewell Chan

(He/Him)
  • Senior Fellow, USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy
New York
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Covers:  Texas politics, government and public policy
Doesn't Cover: We *only* cover Texas politics, government and public policy
Journalist • Also at sewell.bsky.social

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Sewell Chan joined The Texas Tribune as editor in chief in October 2021. 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 …

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The Houston Landing Is Closing, and Laying Off 43 Employees

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By Sewell Chan
| Columbia Journalism Review
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. The Houston Landing, a newsroom that launched two years ago with nearly $20 million in philanthropic commitments, announced today that it will shut down in mid-May and lay off all forty-three employees.
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The Houston Landing is closing, and laying off 43 employees - Editor and Publisher

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By Sewell Chan
| Editor & Publisher
Posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 1:36 pm The Houston Landing, a newsroom that launched two years ago with nearly $20 million in philanthropic commitments, announced today that it will shut down in mid-May and lay off all 43 employees. The decision, which was made by the board of the Landing, represents a costly and prominent — but, so far, rare — failure of a local news startup after the launch of scores of such ventures across the country as local newspapers have shrunk or folded.
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Death of an investigative newsroom: how the Center for Public Integrity disintegrated

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By Dave Levinthal , Sewell Chan, Richard J. Tofel
| Substack
Dave Levinthal’s investigative journalism and analysis is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support his work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. of the Columbia Journalism Review is out with a must-read deep dive into the demise of the Center for Public Integrity, the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit news organization launched in 1989. The piece is deeply reported and breaks news.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Copy-editing intern, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Of course: it's how I learned to type.

How is social media changing news?

More info. Less meaning.

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