Jeanette Beebe

Summary

• A freelance journalist with more than 8 years of experience covering personal finance, business, science, medicine, technology, and occasionally the arts.
• Has worked as an editor, fact checker, reporter, writer, and podcast producer for such publications as Investopedia, AARP, Scientific American, Fast Company, Center for Cooperative Media, as well as public radio.
• Founding member of the Center for Internet & Media Ethics.

Experience

Jeanette Beebe is a data-driven and community-oriented journalist who covers personal finance, retirement, science, business, medicine, technology, and, occasionally, the arts.

Her reporting has appeared in several publications, including Time Health, Scientific American, Popular Science, AARP, and Fast Company, where her article on health and medical data privacy was featured by the Aspen Institute's "Five Best Ideas of the Day." She supported The COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic.

She's also an audio storyteller, from NPR member station WHYY to The Ohio Newsroom to the Darknet Diaries podcast. Her work as a freelance field producer and recordist has been broadcast by Gimlet Media and NPR / ProPublica's "Lost Mothers" series, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.

She works as a fact checker for various podcasts and magazines. She wrote a daily newsletter for the Center for Cooperative Media in New Jersey for three years, and she’s a founding member of the Center for Internet & Media Ethics, a nonprofit launched by 32 journalists in Prague.

Education

Jeanette holds an A.B. in English from Princeton University with certificates in creative writing and gender & sexuality studies. She also attended the Knight Science Journalism at MIT's fact-checking workshops.