Delano Massey joined Axios in 2022 as Managing Editor of Local. He joined the team as the company launched into a dozen new markets, including Detroit, Raleigh and Seattle. Massey leads Axios Local with Jamie Stockwell. Massey joins from CNN, where he was a supervising producer running the Washington-based team of producers, reporters and writers who covered the Justice Department, legal and criminal issues, Supreme Court, Department of Homeland security and immigration. Then, in the throes of a racial reckoning, he worked with CNN's President Jeff Zucker to create the network’s Race & Equality team, a hybrid unit providing news for all platforms. Massey helped recruit, interview, and select the team members. For more than a year, he juggled two demanding beats, spearheading legal coverage surrounding the 2020 election, the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol, and pushing the network into the right place on Race coverage as tensions simmered. Massey shifted his focus to race coverage at CNN, providing input on stories, scripts and shows that appear on CNN. He also appears on panels or speaks to universities about everything from criminal justice and race to diversity, equality and inclusion. As a reporter, Massey authored a weekly column and wrote several enterprise and feature stories at the Akron Beacon Journal, and covered cops, courts and city issues for the Belleville News-Democrat. Massey, a graduate of the University of Akron in his home state of Ohio, has won numerous awards for breaking news, general news and investigative journalism.