Randy Essex
Randy Essex, the former business editor at the Detroit Free Press, is returning to the paper after a stint running a paper in Colorado.
Essex has been publisher and editor of the Post Independent in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
His new job will be senior content director at the Free Press, where he will lead business coverage, including on Detroit’s resurgence, and auto news, helping develop a national transportation coverage plan for the USA Today Network.
Essex was also the deputy managing editor of business and civic affairs at the Free Press, where he worked for six years. After leaving the Free Press, he was the senior editor/news at the Cincinnati Enquirer for two years.
Essex had previously been assistant managing editor of the Des Moines Register, where his responsibilities included overseeing Iowa caucus coverage in 2000 and 2004, before joining the Free Press in 2006.
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