Janelle Nanos

About Janelle Nanos

I\'m a writer, editor, and journalism professor in Boston. I\'ve worked at the Boston Globe since 2014; my current role is enterprise business reporter and assistant business editor for news innovation. In 2023, I was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature reporting for my decade-long investigation published in the Boston Globe Magazine. That story,\"Kate Price Remembers Something Terrible,\" chronicled my effort to help Kate Price search for answers about her childhood sexual abuse and trauma. The story won the Dart Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Trauma; first place in the narrative storytelling category for the Society for Features Journalism\'s Excellence in Feature Writing Awards; the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Magazine Investigative Reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists; and the 2023 Online Journalism Award for feature reporting in a large newsroom. I\'m now working on a book that expands that story into a character-driven narrative that traces the evolution of child sexual exploitation in America from the 1970s to the present.\"An Unthinkable Crime\" will draw on the stories of victims, law enforcement officers, lawyers, advocates, and psychologists and exposing the systems that perpetuate it, all with an eye toward identifying ways to stop these horrific crimes. It will be published by Crown Publishing Group, and edited by Amanda Cook. I\'m represented by Elyse Cheney with the Cheney Agency. Prior to joining the Globe, I was a senior editor at Boston Magazine, where I wrote and edited longform features and service packages. I also worked as an editor at National Geographic Traveler magazine and as a reporter at New York Magazine. My reporting has also gained honors from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing and the North American Travel Journalists Association, and my pieces appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and New York Magazine, among other publications. In my not-so-spare time, I teach journalism courses at my alma mater, Boston College, where I am the Institute for Liberal Arts Journalism Fellow.

Experience

1. Institute for Liberal Arts Journalism Fellow

   Boston College

   Sep 2024 — Present · Chestnut Hill, MA, US

   The ILA Journalism Fellowship, inaugurated in 2013, brings a distinguished journalist to Boston College each year. The fellow teaches one course per semester on a topic of his or her own choosing, which frees significant time to work on a book or some other project that\'s difficult to pursue when working full-time as a reporter. The fellow also holds office hours, takes part in panel discussions and other events on campus, and otherwise participates in the life of the Journalism Program and the wider university.

Education

• New York University

  M.A, Journalism 2005; Security, Public Policy, and Education

  2003 — 2005

• Boston College

  B.A, English 2002

  1998 — 2002

Skills

• Editing
• Storytelling
• Fact-Checking
• Research
• Feature Articles
• Magazines
• Social Media
• Blogging
• Politics
• Web Content
• Television
• Technical Writing
• Copy Editing
• Interviews
• Publications
• Editorial
• Journalism
• Publishing
• Radio
• Ap Style