Glenn Kessler
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| Glenn Kessler | |
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| Organization: | The Washington Post Fact Checker |
| Role: | Columnist |
| Location: | Washington, D.C. |
| Expertise: | Journalism |
| Education: | •Brown University •Columbia University (M.A.) |
| Website: | Official website |
Glenn Kessler is a journalist and primary columnist for the The Washington Post Fact Checker.[1][2]
Career
Glenn Kessler was a White House correspondent for Newsday from 1987 to 1998.[3]
In 1993, he received a "laurel" from the Columbia Journalism Review for his coverage of Bill Clinton's haircut on an airport runway. The Columbia Journalism Review recognized Kessler for his unique approach to fact-checking the details of this story. Kessler fact checked the actual length of the airport delay caused by Clinton's haircut when other news outlets assumed the delay was significant.[4]
Kessler joined The Washington Post in 1998 as National Business Editor and then Chief Economics Editor. From 2002 to 2010, he was a diplomatic correspondent covering the State Department. As diplomatic correspondent, Kessler traveled with three Secretaries of State including Condoleeza Rice. He wrote a book about her called The Confidante: Condoleezza Rice and the Creation of the Bush Legacy (St. Martin's Press, 2007).[5][4][3]
In 2011, Kessler took over The Washington Post Fact Checker column originally written by reporter Michael Dobbs. The Washington Post Fact Checker began as a temporary project aimed at fact-checking the 2008 presidential campaign. It became a permanent feature in 2011 and expanded its mission to general fact-checking. It also started fact-checking whether candidates had flip-flopped on issues. Kessler writes several fact checks weekly, one of which appears in the Sunday print edition of The Washington Post. He describes his work as "rating politicians on the accuracy of their claims." For a time, Kessler was the sole columnist. A second writer, Michelle Ye Hee Lee, was added in late 2014.[6][1][7]
Kessler says:
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I look for statements that are about big issues, statements that I can use to tell a larger story about the background of the federal budget or the healthcare law, issues that are confusing to people, that they hear politicians talk about and are wondering, 'Is that really true?'[6] [8] |
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Awards
- 1992 Pulitzer Prize for spot news reporting of a subway derailment, awarded to the staff of Newsday.[9]
- 1997 Pulitzer Prize for spot news reporting of the TWA Flight 800 crash, awarded to the staff of Newsday.[10]
Recent news
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 GlennKessler.com, "About the Fact Checker column," accessed September 21, 2015
- ↑ The Washington Post, "Glenn Kessler," accessed September 21, 2015
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Brown Daily Herald, "Kessler '81 critical of Rice," December 9, 2007
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Washington Post Fact Checker, "About the fact checker," September 11, 2013
- ↑ GlennKessler.com, "About," accessed September 21, 2015
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 C-SPAN, "Q & A with Glenn Kessler," December 19, 2014
- ↑ Cision, "Michelle Ye Hee Lee Departs Arizona Republic for WaPo," December 11, 2014
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ The Pulitzer Prizes, "1992 Winners and Finalists," accessed September 21, 2015
- ↑ The Pulitzer Prizes, "1997 Winners and Finalists," accessed September 21, 2015
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