Jessica Wiederhorn has over twenty years of award-winning sales experience in B2C, B2G, and B2B space working for startups, Fortune 500 companies, and everything in between. She was the Founder of FAT Brands Foundation, a 501c3 dedicated to empowering communities and families and was the Co-Founder of Society of Saleswomen, a non-profit organization dedicated to women in sales and business. It was through these efforts she won Los Angeles Business Journal Non-Profit Executive of the Year (Emerging) in 2024.
She is currently the Founder of The Media Integrity Project, the parent entity to Humanity in Journalism.
Jessica holds a Bachelor in Business Administration from Foster School of Business, University of Washington, and an MBA from USC Marshall School of Business and received her certificate in Modern Journalism in 2026 from NYU.
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September 15, 2026
The Story Behind Humanity in Journalism
Welcome to Humanity in Journalism - a podcast about the people behind the headlines and the human cost of the stories they tell.
In this special launch episode, host Jessica Wiederhorn shares the story behind the show: why she created Humanity in Journalism, what led her here, and what she hopes this podcast can become. It's a candid look at the philosophy driving this project - a belief that journalism should be as compassionate as it is accurate, and that the choices reporters make ripple far beyond the byline.
