Sanchez became the news and politics editor at Texas Monthly in 2018. Previously, he served as editor of The Monitor in McAllen for nearly five years and as managing editor of the Baton Rouge bureau of The Times-Picayune. Sanchez also worked as executive editor of the Waco Tribune-Herald for almost 10 years and in the newsrooms of the Austin American-Statesman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram and The Washington Post.