{{short description|American journalist}} {{Cleanup rewrite|date=September 2020}} '''Evan Brandt''' is a reporter covering Pottstown, Pennsylvania for ''The Mercury''. Brandt has received media coverage for being the newspaper's last reporter located in Pottstown.<ref name="Bixxjournals">{{cite news |last1=Blumenthal |first1=Jeff |title=Why the decline of suburban newspapers should matter to you |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2019/02/14/why-the-decline-of-suburban-newspapers-should.html |work=www.bizjournals.com}}</ref><ref name="Courier">{{cite news |last1=Hildebrand |first1=Kurt |title=One lone reporter to another |url=https://www.recordcourier.com/opinion/one-lone-reporter-to-another/ |work=www.recordcourier.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Pompeo |first1=Joe |title=The Hedge Fund Vampire That Bleeds Newspapers Dry Now Has the Chicago Tribune by the Throat |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/02/hedge-fund-vampire-alden-global-capital-that-bleeds-newspapers-dry-has-chicago-tribune-by-the-throat |magazine=Vanity Fair |language=en-us}}</ref>
== Personal life == Brandt graduated from Pleasantville High School in 1982. After graduating SUNY Binghamton in 1986, he worked at The Patent Trader weekly newspaper in Northern Westchester, NY, leaving in 1997 as Executive Editor of Trader Publications. Brandt started working at The Mercury in 1997.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="WHYY">{{cite news |last1=Benshof |first1=Laura |title=In Philly suburbs, readers see more 'ghost newspapers' as hedge funds cut costs |url=https://whyy.org/articles/in-philly-suburbs-readers-see-more-ghost-newspapers-as-hedge-funds-cut-costs/ |work=WHYY}}</ref>
Brandt is the biological son of writer Anthony S. Brandt and Barbara Brandt, and the stepson of Lorraine Dusky.<ref name=":0" /> His stepmother was previously a newspaper reporter.<ref name=":0" />
Brandt is married to Karen Maxfield and has one son.<ref name=":0" />
== Selected works == According to ''The New York Times'', Brandt has received 36 journalism awards.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last1=Barry|first1=Dan|last2=Sakaguchi|first2=Haruka|date=2020-07-10|title=The Last Reporter in Town Had One Big Question for His Rich Boss|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/us/alden-global-capital-pottstown-mercury.html|access-date=2020-07-20|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
In the early 2000s, Brandt exposed a chemical company's warehouse which closed and became part of Montgomery County Community College.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/pottstown-mercury-epa-helping-convert-mercury-building-boutique-hotel|title=Pottstown Mercury: EPA helping convert Mercury building into 'boutique hotel|first=OA|last=US EPA|date=June 11, 2020|website=US EPA}}</ref>
Brandt's coverage of the proposed Pottstown YMCA closure helped keep it open.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pottsmerc.com/news/year-in-review-pottstown-successfully-fought-to-keep-its-ymca-open/article_951ef338-0251-11e9-adb3-cf9e7d5f36b6.html|title=YEAR IN REVIEW: Pottstown successfully fought to keep its YMCA open|first=Evan Brandt ebrandt@21st-centurymedia com @PottstownNews on|last=Twitter|website=The Pottstown Mercury|date=17 December 2018 }}</ref>
His coverage of the shortage of computers for disadvantaged students prompted a $60,000 donation.<ref name=":0" />{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}
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