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Jeanette Beebe is a journalist, fact-checker, and podcast producer covering health care, women’s health, science, and technology.

Her reporting has appeared in Time, AARP, Scientific American, Popular Science, Forbes, Fast Company, Medscape, and elsewhere. She’s a 2024-2025 Journalists in Aging fellow, and she’s 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 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 the Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists. She also has a literary background. 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.

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.