Joseph Sexton is an American journalist who has been a senior editor at ProPublica since 2013. Formerly, he was a metropolitan news editor at The New York Times for seven years. Before that, he had been deputy metropolitan news editor since 2003. As deputy metropolitan news editor for investigations and enterprise, Sexton oversaw a series of reporting by Clifford J. Levy on the abuse of mentally ill adults in group homes in New York which won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2003.