US EditionPost Fact Checker Glenn Kessler Exits in Disgust Alongside About 75 Colleagues in Latest Buyout
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, AUG 6 – Glenn Kessler and about 75 others accepted buyouts amid editorial shifts and newsroom restructuring under new leadership at The Washington Post, highlighting challenges in fact-checking and diversity.
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Kessler Claims WashPost's Desire to Appeal to Fox Viewers Influenced His Exit
Kessler Claims WashPost's Desire to Appeal to Fox Viewers Influenced His Exit After departing The Washington Post, fact-checker Glenn Kessler did what seemingly every major journalist who has recently left a major outlet has done: he joined Substack. On Tuesday, Kessler took to his new platform to claim that he left the Post because publisher Will Lewis wanted to expand the paper’s audience to include Fox News watchers. Even before Kessler bega…
Veteran fact-checker Glenn Kessler says Trump made it ‘acceptable for politicians to lie with impunity’
The Washington Post Fact Checker is leaving the field. After close to 15 years of fact-checking, Glenn Kessler took a buyout as part of the Post’s recent newsroom overhaul. Kessler’s […] The post Veteran fact-checker Glenn Kessler says Trump made it ‘acceptable for politicians to lie with impunity’ appeared first on Poynter.
Post Fact Checker Glenn Kessler Exits in Disgust Alongside About 75 Colleagues in Latest Buyout
For 14 years, Washington Post reporter Glenn Kessler wrote a regular column that examined the accuracy of the statements and claims that politicians make on a daily basis. It became one of the most widely read sections of the paper, skewering both political parties and reviving interest in the nuts and bolts of accountability journalism. In the Fact Checker, Kessler would award one to four ‘Pinocchios’ to reflect factual errors, misinformation, …
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