Katherine Wessing
Fact-checker
Education: University of California, Berkeley
Expertise: Health
Katherine Wessling is an accomplished multiplatform storyteller. Extensive senior-level experience in magazine publishing including editor-in-chief, research editor and writer. She was the research chief at The Food Network Magazine and The Pioneer Woman Magazine. Prior to that, she was chief of research at THE GOOD LIFE, research editor at O, The Oprah Magazine, and a fact-checker at Esquire.
She has been an editorial lead for websites, newsletters, speeches, grant proposals, press releases, marketing materials, memoirs, plays, and young adult books. Published young adult author, anthologized essayist. Curriculum development for in-person and online fact-checking, media training, and reporting courses.