Sean Burch

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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 written about, positively” for CJR.

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Sean Burch

Former New York Times opinion editor James Bennet cried on the witness stand in federal court while apologizing to Sarah Palin over a 2017 story that falsely suggested her political action committee was connected to the 2011 Arizona mass shooting that killed six people and severely injured then-Rep. Gabby Giffords. Bennet on Thursday took the blame for the editorial, which Palin said defamed her. “I blew it, you know,” he told the courtroom, per The New York Times.

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Sean Burch

The Trump Administration on Friday unveiled a reconstructed covid.gov website that said a Wuhan lab leak was the “most likely origin of Covid-19.” The revamped site also blasted Dr. Anthony Fauci and President Biden, saying his administration resorted to “outright censorship” by working with social media companies to suppress dissenting opinions on the virus’ origin and how to treat it.

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Sean Burch

Columbia University cut ties with Columbia Journalism Review executive editor Sewell Chan on Friday, less than a year after he took the job at the media-focused magazine and website. Chan was named the executive editor in June 2024 and officially started in the position last September. His biography on CJR’s website already refers to his eight months running the outlet in the past tense. “Sewell Chan served as executive editor of the Columbia Journalism Review from 2024 to 2025.

6 days ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Sean Burch

Haley Joel Osment said he is “absolutely horrified” by his behavior while being arrested for public intoxication earlier this month, which included saying he was being “kidnapped by a f–king Nazi” and later using an antisemitic slur against an officer. The actor, after being arrested at a ski lodge at Mammoth Lakes, California, on Apr.