Jeanette Beebe is journalist and fact-checker based in Akron, Ohio.

Her reporting has appeared in Time, Scientific American, Popular Science, Forbes, Fast Company, and elsewhere. She was a 2024-2025 Journalists in Aging fellow, and she was a contributing editor at Investopedia. She supported The COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic on the reporting/outreach and editorial/comms teams.

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 broadcast 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’s worked as a fact checker for podcasts and magazines, including AARP, 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. 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 the Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists.

She also has a literary background, mostly as a poet. She is the poetry editor of Gordon Square Review, a publication of Literary Cleveland.

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