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Tessa Weinberg
Reporter
Tessa Weinberg is a junior at the University of Missouri, majoring in print and digital journalism with an emphasis in investigative reporting. This fall, she’s reporting on state government for the Columbia Missourian, fact-checking for PolitiFact Missouri and working as an editorial assistant at Investigative Reporters and Editors. In the past, she has interned at the (Louisville) Courier-Journal and the Los Angeles Times.