Dwayne Bray(II)

Dwayne Bray is a Vice President for Andscape, ESPN's content studio on the intersection of sports, culture and Black identity. Bray has been with Andscape since 2019 and with ESPN since 2006. He oversees Andscape's stable of content creators and has served as executive producer on several Andscape films. Before joining Andscape's leadership team, he was a senior writer for the Black-led studio. Prior to his Andscape career, Bray was an executive with the ESPN Productions studio team, where he oversaw the network's journalists who produced long-form investigative and enterprise video content. The stories Bray oversaw -- short and long documentaries -- were most often seen on Outside the Lines, SportsCenter and E:60. Bray also has served as ESPN's on-site news editor for productions of Monday Night Football and the "NBA on ESPN" and the "NBA on ABC." Bray had a long career in newspapers before crossing over to ESPN. He was a top editor in the Sports and Metro departments at the Dallas Morning News; sports editor and police reporter at the Dayton Daily News; courts reporter at the Los Angeles Times; and staff writer at the Medina (Ohio) Gazette. A native of East Cleveland, Ohio, Bray holds a bachelor's degree from Cleveland State University and a master's degree from the Ohio State University.