Seth Freed Wessler

Seth Freed Wessler is an award-winning journalist and a Type Media Center Fellow. Seth has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, This American Life, Mother Jones, and various other outlets, in addition to working as a staff reporter at ProPublica, NBC, and Type Investigations. He was previously a visiting scholar at NYU’s Arthur Carter Journalism Institute and a Soros Media Fellow, and he has taught journalism on the graduate level at CUNY. Seth’s accountability reporting has led to the passage of legislation, spurred lawsuits and advocacy campaigns, and forced government reforms. He has won more than a dozen national reporting awards, including a Peabody, the Hillman Prize, and investigative reporting awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the National Association of Black Journalists. Seth was also a National Magazine Award finalist, and directed “The Facility,” an Oscar-shortlisted documentary film. Seth's work on immigration enforcement, federal prisons, racial inequity, and social services has spurred legislative reforms, inspired advocacy campaigns, and led to shifts in federal and state policy. He is the winner of a Peabody Award, a Hillman Prize, a Salute to Excellence Award from the NABJ, the John Bartlow Martin Award, the Izzy Award, the Investigative Prize business reporting from SABEW, the Al Neuharth Award for Investigative Journalism from NAHJ, the Immigration Journalism Prize from the French-American Foundation and the John Jay/Guggenheim Award for Criminal Justice Reporting.