Sylvan Fox (June 2, 1928 – December 22, 2007) was an American journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize.
From 1967 to 1973, he worked as a reporter and editor at The New York Times, including a stint as the Saigon bureau chief in 1973.
Fox was a reporter at The New York World-Telegram and Sun on March 1, 1962, when he was part of a team assigned to cover an airplane crash on Long Island that killed all 95 passengers.
He worked the facts provided by other reporters on the scene and delivered an article within thirty minutes of the accident.
Fox was a visiting professor at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus in 1967 and 1968, where he taught journalism courses.