Glenn Kessler

Quick Facts

Full Name	Glenn Kessler
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Jul 6, 1959(1959-07-06)
Age	65
Birthplace	Cincinnati
Country	United States
Birth City	Cincinnati
Horoscope	Leo

Glenn Kessler Biography

Glenn Kessler is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on July 6, 1959 in Cincinnati, Cincinnati, United States. Glenn Kessler (born July 6, 1959) is an American diplomatic correspondent who writes columns and helms the “Fact Checker” feature for The Washington Post.

The Wall Street Journal called Kessler “one of the most aggressive journalists on the State Department beat.” The Atlantic, in a 2007 profile of Condoleezza Rice, said that “week after week, Kessler asks the best questions, and the most questions, at the secretary’s press conferences.” Kessler, a specialist on nuclear proliferation (especially in Iran and North Korea) and the Middle East, wrote the first article on the North Korea nuclear facility being built in Syria that was destroyed by Israeli jets. He was immediately attacked for spreading neoconservative propaganda but his reporting turned out to be correct and apologies were later offered. In a lengthy article, Kessler also revealed the Bush administration’s internal decision-making that led to the Iraq war. He traveled with three different Secretaries of State – Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton – and for several years wrote a blog about his experiences on those trips. An article he wrote on apparent tensions between Rice and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld during a 2006 trip to Iraq was later denounced by Rumsfeld as “just fairly typical Washington Post stuff.”

In 2013, Kessler launched an iOS app, titled GlennKessler for iOS, for his column on the App Store. The app was created by his son, Hugo Kessler. It contained his newest articles and general biographical information. The app was updated with a new design for iOS 7 in the fall of 2013. In 2014, he released a redesigned version of the app for the iPad and added a Pinocchio Game based on his column and a multitude of video interviews.

In the Washington Post “Fact Checker,” Kessler rates statements by politicians, usually on a range of one to four Pinocchios—with one Pinocchio for minor shading of the facts and four Pinocchios for outright lies. If the statement is truthful, the person will get a rare “Geppetto.” Kessler has a new blog post at least five times a week; one column appears every week in the Sunday print edition of The Washington Post. Kessler’s team includes another reporter and a video producer, who also write fact checks edited by Kessler.

Kessler’s reporting played a role in two foreign policy controversies during the presidency of George W. Bush. He was called to testify in the trial of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, in which he was questioned about a 2003 telephone conversation with Libby in which the name of Valerie Plame, a CIA operative, might have been discussed. (Libby recalled they had discussed Plame; Kessler said they did not.) Meanwhile, a 2004 telephone conversation between Kessler and Steve J. Rosen, a senior official at American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), was at the core of the AIPAC leaking case. The federal government recorded the call and made it the centerpiece of its 2005 indictment of Rosen and an alleged co-conspirator; the charges were dropped in 2009.

Glenn Kessler Net Worth

Glenn Kessler is one of the richest Journalist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Glenn Kessler 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Kessler is a 1981 graduate of Brown University and received a Masters of International Affairs in 1983 from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

Kessler joined The Washington Post in 1998 as the national business editor and later served as economic policy reporter. Kessler also was a reporter with Newsday for eleven years, covering the White House, politics, the United States Congress, airline safety and Wall Street. His investigative articles on airline safety led to the indictments of airline executives and federal officials for fraud, prompted congressional hearings into safety issues and spurred the federal government to impose new safety rules for DC-9 jets and begin regular inspections of foreign airlines. He won the Premier Award from the Aviation Space Writers Association and the investigative reporting award from the Society of the Silurians.

In a 2012 study of fact checkers, the Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University concluded that Kessler “splits almost evenly between the two parties.”

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After addressing the Kentucky legislature in 2019 on behalf of its ethics commission, Kessler was named a Kentucky Colonel, the state’s highest honor, for his contributions to the nation. Kessler noted on Twitter that he had awarded Four Pinocchios to the two people who had signed the declaration: Gov. Matt Bevin and Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes.

Facts & Trivia

Glenn Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Glenn Kessler celebrates birthday on July 6 of every year.

Kessler is considered one of the pioneers in political fact checking, a movement that inspired about 100 fact-checking organizations in nearly 40 countries, according to a tally by the Duke Reporters’ Lab. In 1996, while at Newsday, “Kessler wrote what may have been the first lengthy fact-check story in a major American newspaper, a preemptive guide to a debate between Bill Clinton and Bob Dole aimed at helping viewers evaluate the claims they were about to hear.” He documented the growth of fact checking around the world in an article for Foreign Affairs magazine, written after training journalists in Morocco.