John Brennan

John Brennan has been covering sports business — with a focus on the Meadowlands Sports Complex — since 2002 and has been a reporter for The Record since 1983. He also covers New Jersey's trendsetting efforts to expand gambling options, including online gaming (they did) and sports betting (still in court).

In 2008, Brennan was selected with co-writer Jeff Pillets as a Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Local Reporting (for an investigation of the failed Meadowlands EnCap project). It’s the only corruption-related investigative work by New Jersey reporters ever so acknowledged by the Pulitzer committee.

Brennan covers the uncertain fates of American Dream Meadowlands/Xanadu, the Atlantic City casino industry, and the New Jersey horse racing industry, as well as the sports franchises and facilities throughout the metropolitan area. Sports ticket prices are another area of interest, from a consumer perspective.

A 19-year stint in The Record’s Sports department included working as a traveling Nets beat writer from 1992-2000. Brennan started working at The Record when he received an internship during his senior year at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck.

His Meadowlands Matters blog was chosen in Feb. 2011 as “Best Blog” by the New Jersey Press Association and as "Best Media-Affiliated Blog" by the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists.

He played a prominent role in the documentary “The Soprano State: New Jersey’s Culture of Corruption Part I”