Ganim just won for local reporting on the Jerry Sandusky scandal. Here's the lowdown on this journalistic wunderkind.
Ganim celebrates her win.
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1. She broke the news that Sandusky was under investigation for allegedly molesting boys.
Here's her very first story on the now-disgraced Penn State coach, published on March 31, 2011 in the Harrisburg, PA "Patriot-News." This would become one of the biggest stories of the year.
She told MarketWatch last fall that working at a local paper helped her break the Sandusky story: “You can credit the Patriot-News with giving me the time a reporter needs to cover this kind of story. You don’t have that kind of flexibility any more.”
Jerry Sandusky
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2. She's eschewed blogging — which many writers her age turn to — in favor of working at local papers.
Not only did Ganim break the Sandusky story for the local "Patriot-News," she also did award-winning work for the "Centre Daily Times," based in State College, PA.
