Randy Essex's career in news has been a seminar in America: He has led award-winning coverage of presidential politics in Iowa and Ohio; the auto industry and urban rebirth in Detroit; and immigration in Colorado. Was executive editor of the Omaha World-Herald in his home state. He's the 2016 winner of American Society of News Editors' Burl Osborne Editorial Leadership award for work on immigration. Randy is a bicyclist, runner and baseball fan.