Rochell Sleets News Today

“It’s clear to me that Phil has the respect and trust of our newsroom,” Mitch Pugh, executive editor of the Tribune.

Journalist Rochell Sleets, named co-news director at the Chicago Tribune in 2020, led a number of initiatives as the newspaper navigated the pandemic.

Rochell Sleets came to the Tribune in 2007 as a design editor. She later became the first Black news director of the publication in 2020.

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