Will Bredderman is a veteran New York journalist, having started his career as a beat reporter for the Brooklyn Paper in 2012. He wrote on state and city politics for the New York Observer and Crain’s New York Business before a stint serving as senior researcher for The Daily Beast. His investigative work on corruption in the five boroughs earned him a Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing award in 2020, while his early exposés on the involvement of Egyptian and Qatari business interests in the scandal surrounding Sen. Bob Menendez won him a “Best Investigative Story” prize from the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists in 2023.