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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GREGORY WARNER, HOST: You re listening to ROUGH TRANSLATION from NPR. I m Gregory Warner. And today, a story from Uganda about a woman who has elevated insults to an art form that even the president of her country, Yoweri Museveni, has not been able to ignore.
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STELLA NYANZI: Yoweri, they say it was your birthday yesterday - how bitterly sad a day.
WARNER: Now, before we go further, a language alert - this episode includes language that is vulgar and is sexual in nature. It is by far the most explicit episode I have ever worked on. It might be the most graphic thing in your podcast feed right now. And so it goes without saying, some of you may not find this appropriate for kids or safe for work. But we have left this language unbleeped because this episode is all about the art of t