Brad Racino is the managing editor of New York Focus. He was previously a managing producer at Syracuse.com; editor and publisher for NY Cannabis Insider; and a senior investigative reporter and director at inewsource in San Diego.

Racino's journalism has earned more than 100 awards, including two national medals from Investigative Reporters and Editors, two national Edward R. Murrow awards, two Golden Mike Awards, a Meyer "Mike" Berger award from Columbia Journalism School, the Sol Price Award for Responsible Journalism, a national Emmy nomination and a 2019 "Body of Work" award. He was also named one of 10 "Emerging Leaders" in U.S. nonprofit journalism by The Institute for Nonprofit News in 2017.