Kathrin Wesolowski
Reporter, fact checker and presenter
As an author, video reporter and fact-checker, Kathrin Wesolowski researches socially and internationally relevant topics.
Kathrin has been working as a freelance video reporter, author and presenter for DW since September 2020 and has been a permanent member of the DW fact-checking team since the beginning of 2021. Her main topics are international affairs, society, politics and fact-checking. She loves doing research abroad, so far in Brazil, Myanmar and Georgia, among others. In 2022, "Medium Magazin" ranked Kathrin among Germany's top 30 to 30 journalists.
Kathrin gives workshops on fact-checking, propaganda and artificial intelligence. She studied journalism and English at the TU Dortmund University and Tec de Monterrey in Mexico. She completed her traineeship at the Hessischer Rundfunk in Germany. Kathrin has since worked as a freelance journalist for Arte, NBC, dpa-Themendienst, HR, WDR, ZDF and others. In 2024, she set up the ZDFheute-TikTok channel as the editorial lead.