About

Janelle Nanos is a business enterprise reporter writing features, investigations, and projects at The Boston Globe, where she also serves as the assistant business editor for news innovation. She joined the Globe in 2014, and thrives on diving deep into the ideas, people, and trends that drive Boston’s economy.

In 2023, she was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature reporting for her decade-long investigation into a woman's allegations of childhood sexual abuse. She is the recipient of the Dart Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Trauma; the Society for Features Journalism's narrative storytelling award; and the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for magazine investigative reporting. Her reporting has also received honors from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing and the North American Travel Journalists Association. She previously worked at Boston Magazine, National Geographic Traveler, and New York Magazine, and now teaches journalism at Boston College.

She is currently writing a book for Crown Publishing Group about familial trafficking and child exploitation. She is represented by Elyse Cheney at the Cheney Agency.