Jeanette Beebe is a journalist, fact-checker, and audio producer covering science, health, and tech, often with a focus on social issues.

She’s a Contributing Editor at Investopedia, focusing on retirement and personal finance. She’s a 2024-2025 Journalists in Aging fellow. She supported The COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic on the reporting/outreach and editorial/comms teams. Her reporting has appeared in many publications, including Time, AARP, Scientific American, Forbes, Medscape, and Popular Science, and her Fast Company article on health and medical data privacy was featured by the Aspen Institute's “Five Best Ideas of the Day.”

She’s an audio storyteller, from reporting for The Ohio Newsroom and WHYY to producing for Darknet Diaries. Her work as a freelance field producer/recordist has been broadcasted by several outlets, including the BBC, Gimlet Media and NPR / ProPublica’s “Lost Mothers” series, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.

She has worked as a fact checker for various podcasts and magazines, including Scientific American and Business Insider, and she attended the Knight Science Journalism at MIT’s fact-checking workshops. For three years, she wrote a daily newsletter for the Center for Cooperative Media in New Jersey. She’s a founding member of the Center for Internet & Media Ethics, a non-profit launched by 32 journalists at a seminar in Prague. She is a member of NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists. She has a literary background, mostly as a poet.

She holds an A.B. in English from Princeton University with certificates in Creative Writing and Gender & Sexuality Studies.

Born and raised in Iowa, Jeanette has lived in New York, Chicago, and Berlin (twice). After living in New Jersey for over a decade, she is now based in Akron, Ohio’s Highland Square neighborhood.