Lowell Mellett (February 22, 1884 — April 6, 1960)[1] was an American journalist, best known for supervising the series Why We Fight during World War II.

"[2] He became a journalist, covering local and then national and international affairs, editing a paper in Seattle and then Washington, DC for the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Chain.

As editor at the Washington Daily News he clashed with the chain's management over Franklin D. Roosevelt's court-packing plan; immediately upon his resignation in 1937, FDR telephoned him to recruit his services.

[5] FDR, in appointing Mellet to head the BMP, wrote, "The American motion picture is one of the most effective mediums in informing and entertaining our citizens.

He had a column in The Washington Star, saying he wrote out of "an urgent sense of danger" due to the chaotic and uncertain nature the war had left the world in.