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Queens Daily Eagle editor Brand set to depart

David F. Brand

David F. Brand will be leaving his post as managing editor of Queens Daily Eagle to begin a new job next month with a city-wide news organization primarily covering housing and homelessness.

Brand had been with the newspaper for 3 years and had also worked as a radio host and producer at WBAI 99.5 FM.

He has also worked freelance with his work appearing in City Limits, The Nation, City Lab, Gothamist, Gotham Gazette and various other news outlets.

Brand won an Ippies Award in 2018 for local news coverage for his reporting on how artists with disabilities overcome structural and institutional barriers.

Additionally, Brand has also been involved in social work working as a social work intern.

Brand is a B.S. in secondary history education from Boston University and holds a master’s degree in social work from New York University.

Mariam Ahmed

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