Jack Gannon

[close] Thirty-four, single and has been a reporter at the Buffalo Sentinel for the past ten years.
Ever since he was a kid, all he wanted to be was a reporter, a reporter in New York City. He was a blue-collar kid. His mother worked long hours as a waitress, while his father worked hard shifts in a factory on the lakeshore that made rope. Both of them were newspaper readers, a trait they'd passed on to him. His parents died in a car accident eleven months ago while driving out following a lead to try to find their missing daughter, Jack's big sister, Cora.

Cora was five years older than him and nurtured his dream. She convinced their parents to buy him a second-hand computer and encouraged him to write. They were as close as any brother and sister could be, but their age difference had a bearing on their relationship and eventually Cora grew apart from him and her family. She changed, she started taking drugs and took to drinking; she ran away from home when she was seventeen.

He received a Pulitzer nomination with a huge story behind a jetliner's crash into Lake Erie and job offers in Manhattan but didn't win the prize and the offers evaporated.