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Sewell Chan

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Sewell Chan is the editorial page editor at the Los Angeles Times. Previously, he served as a deputy managing editor. Before joining the LA Times in 2018, Chan worked for 14 years in a variety of roles at The New York Times.

To Move Forward on Racial Equity, Newsrooms Need to Reckon with Their Pasts

To Move Forward on Racial Equity, Newsrooms Need to Reckon with Their Pasts

Germans have a term — vergangenheitsbewältigung — to describe the process of coming to terms with the past. The concept emerged in the decades after World War II, as historians, philosophers,…
October 8, 2020