Jesselyn Cook is a Canadian journalist and non-fiction writer. She is a Nieman Fellow.

Career

Cook was initially a tech-focused journalist who wrote about the Internet's "dark corners". She has been researching and writing on the QAnon conspiracy theory since 2020. In 2024, Cook published The Quiet Damage, a book which profiles five QAnon believers, and how those beliefs impacted their families. The book won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award in 2023.

Works

Selected articles

  • Cook, Jesselyn (2018-04-17). . HuffPost.
  • Cameron, Emily; Cook, Jesselyn (2018-05-22). . PBS News.
  • Cook, Jesselyn (2021-02-11). . HuffPost.
  • Cook, Jesselyn (2022-05-23). . NBC News.
  • Cook, Jesselyn (2022-06-07). . NBC News.
  • Cook, Jesselyn (2023-03-14). . NBC News.

Books

  • Cook, Jesselyn (2024-07-23). The Quiet Damage. New York: Crown. ISBN 978-0-593-44325-5.