Greg Hanlon

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Title: Greg Hanlon, Senior News Editor - Crime - PEOPLE

• Greg Hanlon has been an editor in PEOPLE's crime vertical since 2015. He oversees the publication of dozens of sensitive stories per week.

• Greg's writing on the intersection of sports and crime has been anthologized in the Best American Sports Writing series. He was a 2014 finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. 

• Before joining PEOPLE, Greg wrote for multiple publications including The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Slate and The New York Post.

Experience

Greg Hanlon has been an editor in PEOPLE’s crime vertical since 2015 and has covered crime for more than 15 years. He oversees the publication of dozens of sensitive stories per week. He has appeared on multiple seasons of People Magazine Investigates.

Greg is the co-author of two books: A Giant Win (with former New York Giants coach Tom Coughlin) and Watch My Smoke (with Pro Football Hall of Famer Eric Dickerson).

About PEOPLE

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Latest from Greg Hanlon

Michael Strahan and Tom Coughlin.
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Rapper Sean Combs attends the 2018 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 4, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California
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Law enforcement and first responders respond to Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, on September 4, 2024, after a shooting was reported. Police took a suspect into custody after the shooting on Wednesday, with students evacuated from the scene and local media reporting fatalities. CNN, citing unnamed law enforcement sources, reported that four people had been killed and 30 wounded. Other outlets reported two deaths.
Suspect in Georgia School Shooting ID'd as 14-Year-Old Student
Pilot for a Day
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 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage during a rally on July 13, 2024
Donald Trump Shot in Assassination Attempt: Full Recap of the Shocking Incident
 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage during a rally on July 13, 2024
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Tessa Mowel
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Allison Havemann-Niedrach
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June 10: Karen Read looks at the gallery during her murder trial at Norfolk Superior Court
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Matthew Perry
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O.J. Simpson tries on a leather glove allegedly used in the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman during testimony in Simpson's murder trial June 15, 1995 in Los Angeles
FBI Releases 475 Pages of Documents on O.J. Simpson 2 Months After His Death
Ashley Turner, Matt Turner Wedding
Inside USMNT Goalie Matt Turner's ‘Timeless, Romantic’ Wedding to Former Cheerleader Ashley Herron in Boston! (Exclusive)
O.J. Simpson listens during a parole hearing at Lovelock Correctional Center in Lovelock, Nevada on July 20, 2017.
O.J. Simpson's Cause of Death Revealed
Spiderman and Wonder Woman
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Law enforcement and medical personnel respond to a shooting at Union Station during the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl LVIII victory parade on February 14, 2024 in Kansas City, Missouri. Several people were shot and two people were detained after a rally celebrating the Chiefs Super Bowl victory
Kansas City Mayor Almost Brought Young Son to Chiefs Parade Where Gunfire Erupted: 'Tragedy'
Treveon Isaiah Taylor, Sr., Jessica Ross, speaks during a news conference, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023, in Atlanta, announcing a lawsuit against a doctor and Southern Regional Medical Center, a hospital south of Atlanta where Ross went on July 9 to have her son.
Medical Examiner Says Hospital Didn't Notify His Office of Baby's Decapitation Death, But Should Have
War and Treaty USO Tour
How The War and Treaty's Michael Trotter Jr., an Iraq War Veteran, Came Full Circle on a USO Tour (Exclusive)
Police respond to Perry High School in Perry, Iowa., Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024.
6th Grader Killed, 5 Others Injured in Iowa School Shooting; Assailant Dead
Gypsy Rose Blanchard and her husband Ryan Anderson photographed in prison on December 11, 2023.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard and New Husband Share Fears of Life in the Spotlight: 'Going to Be a Whirlwind' (Exclusive)
Muhammad Ali
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Eli Manning and Tom Coughlin buying groceries for families in need during the holidays.
Eli Manning and Tom Coughlin Surprise Families with Kids in Treatment for Cancer by Paying for Groceries
Law enforcement cars patrol as an active search for the shooter is underway in Lisbon following a mass shooting during which a man on late 25 October reportedly opened fire killing and injuring numerous people in Lewiston, in Lisbon, Maine, USA, 26 October 2023.
Maine Shootings Suspect Robert Card Found Dead