Samantha Yadron

• Contributing analyst at NewsGuard Technologies
• Fact checker, writer, and editor for various publications, including Outside magazine, Alpinist magazine, and Science News
• Former editorial assistant at the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Samantha is a freelance fact checker of books as well as short and long-form magazine articles, and was an editorial assistant at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is currently a contributing analyst at NewsGuard, and specializes in health and science. She has also done research on the history of science and medicine and studied science writing at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

Samatha received a B.A. in History from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and an MSJ from the Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism.