Seth Freed Wessler (US) is an investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker whose accountability reporting on immigration, federal law enforcement and human rights has led to the passage of new legislation, spurred lawsuits and advocacy campaigns, and forced federal and state agencies to institute reforms.
Seth has won more than a dozen national awards for his reporting including a Peabody Award, the Hillman Prize, and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Magazine Investigative Reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists. He was a finalist for the National Magazine Award and is the director of THE FACILITY, an Oscar-shortlisted documentary.
Seth was a staff reporter at ProPublica, NBC News and Type Investigations, and has contributed to The New York Times, This American Life, Reveal, Mother Jones, the Smithsonian Magazine, The Nation, WNYC, and others. He has been a visiting scholar at NYU’s Arthur Carter Journalism Institute, a Soros Media Fellow, and a Logan Nonfiction Fellow at the Carey Institute for Global Good and has taught graduate courses at CUNY’s Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.
