Janelle Nanos is a senior staff writer at The Boston Globe, where she also serves as an assistant 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; the Online News Association Journalism award, and the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for magazine investigative reporting.

Janelle was a 2025 Macdowell Fellow for Literature, and served as the Institute for Liberal Arts Fellow for Journalism at Boston College from 2024 through 2026.

A two-time New England Emmy winner, her reporting has also received honors from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing, Editor & Publisher’s EPPY Awards and the North American Travel Journalists Association.

She has worked previously at Boston Magazine, National Geographic Traveler, and New York Magazine. Originally from Long Island, New York, Janelle got her start in journalism as an undergraduate at Boston College, and received her masters in journalism from New York University.

Her first book, AN UNTHINKABLE CRIME, will be released on January 26, 2027 from Crown Publishing Group. She is represented by Elyse Cheney at the Cheney Agency.