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Brandon Quester
Executive Director & Editor
Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting
About Brandon Quester
Brandon Quester is the founder, executive director and editor of the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting. With limited resources, he built AZCIR into an award-winning newsroom, becoming a regional hub for original and collaborative accountability journalism that is best known for its deep investigations on important public policy issues in Arizona. Prior to AZCIR, Quester’s reporting ranged from coverage of children living along the U.S.-Mexico border to U.S. soldiers serving in Kuwait and Iraq. He has worked at newspapers and online publications from Phoenix to California to Wyoming, including work as an editor for the Carnegie-Knight News21 investigative reporting program.