Randy Brown (executive director)
Senior Fellow, Elliott School of Communication
Wichita Statte University
1845 N. Fairmount, Box 31
Wichita, KS 67260
Phone: (316) 978-6070
Cell: (316) 371-09154
Email: randy.brown@wichita.edu
Randy Brown is has been executive director of the Sunshine Coalition since 2005. He is a founding board member and two-time past president.
The Coalition is based at the Elliott School of Communication at Wichita State University, where Randy is the Senior Fellow and has been a fulltime faculty member since 2001. He has 37 years of professional experience, almost 21 of them at The Wichita Eagle. He has been the Eagle’s opinion editor (1996-2001), executive sports editor, assistant city editor and senior reporter. He also spent most of the 1980s at KAKE-TV, first as senior reporter, then as managing editor and Live at Five anchor.
Randy was The Eagle’s 1999 Excellence Award Winner for Professional Commitment and nominee for the John S. Knight Gold Medal for Excellence. At KAKE, he won state, regional and national awards for reporting and/or producing, including the national UPI award for investigative/documentary work. At the Omaha Sun, he was a member of the writing/reporting team that produced the investigative report that won the Pulitzer Prize for Special Local Reporting.