About this series

Here are brief biographies of those who worked on the Cape Cod Times’ nuclear energy project:

Christine Legere is an award-winning reporter who has covered news in southeastern Massachusetts for the Boston Globe and several other publications over the last 30 years and has spent the last four as a reporter for the Cape Cod Times. Her passion has always been investigative reporting.

Cape Cod Times Managing Editor Linda Corcoran edited the nuclear power series. She has led several enterprise projects at the Cape Cod Times, including the ongoing coverage of the region’s opioid crisis. She has been working for the Times since 2004 and previously served as Sunday Editor before being named Managing Editor in 2014.Her editing work has been recognized with many regional awards, including the Morley L. Piper First Amendment Award and the Thomas K. Brindley Public Service Award. Before the Times, Corcoran worked as an editor and reporter in the greater Boston area for 13 years.

 Award-winning journalist Jacqui Banaszynski was the project coach for the series “Fallout.” Banaszynski worked as a newspaper reporter and editor for more than 30 years, most recently as Associate Managing Editor of The Seattle Times, and before that as a senior editor at The Oregonian.

While a reporter at the St. Paul Pioneer Press, her series “AIDS in the Heartland,” which chronicled the lives and deaths of a gay farm couple, won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in feature writing. She was a finalist for the 1986 Pulitzer in international reporting for coverage of the Ethiopian famine and won the nation’s top deadline reporting award for coverage of the 1988 Olympics.

She has edited several award-winning projects, including those that won ASNE Best Writing, Ernie Pyle Human Interest Writing and national business and investigative prizes. In 2008, she was named to the Feature Writers Hall of Fame.

She is now Knight Chair professor at the Missouri School of Journalism and an editing fellow at the Poynter Institute, and teaches student and professional journalists around the world.

Gregory Bryant, a multimedia copy editor at the Times, created the digital version of this series, including its interactive visualizations and maps using Tableau Software, Google Fusion Tables and other tools. As a reporter, he covered town and business beats. As the newspaper’s multi-award-winning online editor for nearly 20 years, he built the first generations of the Times’ website and nurtured its digital news transformation.

Staff photographer Merrily Cassidy was the lead photographer for this project. Cassidy has been working at the Times since 2007. She grew up in New Mexico and now lives in Harwich with her husband, Patrick, dog, Fogo, and three chickens.

Digital Assignment Editor Jason Kolnos produced several videos for this series. He has been a print and digital journalist at the Times for 13 years – since mid-2015 in his current position. For seven years, Kolnos was a videographer and editor – along with Times staffer Eric Williams – of the popular daily CapeCast, a national and regional award-winning webcast featuring Cape Cod in lively video vignettes.

Meg BurtonMeg Burton, assistant news editor at the Times, was copy editor for this series. In addition to a previous stint on the news desk, Burton has been night editor, wire editor, copy desk chief and features copy editor.