Brandon Quester

Brandon Quester is the co-founder, executive director and editor of the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting. In a short time and 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 reporting on important public policy issues in Arizona and the Southwest.

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 in newspapers and online publications from Phoenix to California to Wyoming, including work in education as an adjunct journalism instructor and as the multimedia editor for the Carnegie-Knight News21 program. Quester was also a 2015 Kiplinger Fellow, and recently was selected as a member of the Institute for Nonprofit News Emerging Leaders Council, a group of leaders expected to advance the industry over the coming decade. Most recently he worked as the director of data and visuals for inewsource in San Diego.