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Sewell Chan |
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Sewell Chan is an American journalist who has worked for The New York Times since 2004. In February 2011 he was named deputy opinion page editor of the Times. He was previously a Washington correspondent covering economic policy. From 2007 to 2009, he was the founding bureau chief of City Room, the newspaper's local news blog.
Chan is a member of the National Advisory Board of the Poynter Institute and has been honored with a Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism.
Chan, the son of immigrants from China and Hong Kong, grew up in Flushing, Queens and attended New York City public schools and Hunter College High School. His father was a taxi cab driver. He graduated from Harvard College in 1998 and won a Marshall Scholarship for graduate study at Oxford University.
From 2000 to 2004, Chan wrote for The Washington Post, where he covered municipal politics, poverty and social services, and education. He was the author of a four-part investigative series about the...... (Read more on Wikipedia)
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New York Eyes 'No Smoking' Outdoors, Too - — New York City's workplace smoking ban six years ago drove cigarette and cigar puffers outdoors. But soon some of the outdoors may be off limits, too: The city's health commissioner, Dr. Thomas A. Farley, said Monday that he would seek to ban smoking at city parks and beaches. |
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