Mike Kessler is senior editor of investigations and projects at the Los Angeles NPR affiliate KPCC and its website, LAist.com. Host of the recently released podcast, The Running Man, from ESPN Investigates, his work has appeared in Outside, Wired, GQ, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Los Angeles magazine and other publications. A two-time finalist for the National Magazine Award and a 2020 Sports Emmy winner, his writing has been anthologized in Best American Magazine Writing and other compilations. Kessler was a 2017 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, where he studied criminal justice and wrongful convictions with the Michigan Innocence Clinic.