Former Columbia Journalism Review Editor Defends “Pointed Interactions” With Staff After Firing

Former Columbia Journalism Review Editor Defends “Pointed Interactions” With Staff After Firing

Texas Tribune and Los Angeles Times alum Sewell Chan says he engaged in “normal workplace interactions” but was ousted over subordinates’ complaints.

Sewell Chan Says He Was Fired From CJR After 'Pointed' Interaction With Writer 'Devoted' to Gaza

Sewell Chan on Friday said he was fired as the executive editor of the Columbia Journalism Review after staffers complained about several recent “pointed interactions.” One of those interactions, Chan said in a statement shared with TheWrap and posted on X, was with a writer who was “passionately devoted to the cause of the Gaza protests” who had covered the “recent detention of a Palestinian graduate for an online publication he had just writte…

Columbia University is cutting ties with Sewell Chan, Columbia Journalism Review editor since June 2024; Betsy Morais will serve as interim director

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