C.J. Schexnayder has written for Engineering News-Record since 2004, covering the projects, the people, the money flows, and the workforce dynamics that shape what gets built. He has served as West Editor since 2022.
His work on construction, civil rights, and college football has appeared in Wired, the San Francisco Chronicle, Newsday, the Washington Times, the Associated Press, SB Nation, New Civil Engineer, Latin Trade, the Encyclopedia of Alabama, and other publications. Within the SB Nation network he also edited Roll 'Bama Roll through its growth into one of the network's most-read college football sites.
Earlier in his career he was a newspaper reporter at the Dallas Morning News, the Press-Enterprise, and other papers, covering the cop, courts, and public-safety beats; that work earned multiple journalism awards.