Nicole Beemsterboer
Nicole Beemsterboer is the Senior Producer of Investigations at NPR, where she oversees the conceptualization, development, and execution of the network s investigative reporting across all platforms and coordinates the team s internal and external news partnerships.
Since joining the team in 2013, she has produced and edited some of NPR s most ambitious reporting projects, from a series exposing the U.S. military s secret race-based chemical weapons testing program in World War II to uncovering a dramatic surge in complicated black lung, a deadly coal miners disease, in Appalachia. Her work on the 2017 series,
Lost Mothers, with NPR s Renee Montagne and ProPublica s Nina Martin, helped start a national conversation on the state of maternal care across the country.
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Introduction
The Center for Public Integrity’s latest investigation is about a Tennessee couple who is among the most influential conduits for anti-vaccine messages online and is making millions spreading vaccine misinformation. The story revealed that spreading vaccine misinformation is a multimillion-dollar business.
But during the course of her reporting, journalist Liz Essley Whyte was met with a coordinated campaign of harassment and threats. It started when the operator of a network of vaccine and medical misinformation sites accused her of targeting the families of “vaccine skeptics.”
Now Essley Whyte is speaking with Dr. Katelyn Jetelina, an epidemiologist who has also faced harassment at the hands of anti-vaccine crusaders.
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