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Spotlight is a 2015 American biographical drama film directed by Tom McCarthy and written by McCarthy and Josh Singer. [4] [5] The film follows The Boston Globe 's "Spotlight" team, the oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative journalist unit in the United States, [6] and its investigation into a decades-long coverup of widespread and systemic child sex abuse by numerous priests ...
Michael Rezendes is an American journalist and a member of the global investigative team at Associated Press. He is the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for his investigative work for The Boston Globe. Since joining the Globe he has covered presidential, state and local politics, and was a weekly essayist, roving national correspondent, city hall ...
In early 2002, The Boston Globe published results of an investigation that led to the criminal prosecutions of five Roman Catholic priests and thrust the sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy into the national spotlight. [1][2][3] Another accused priest who was involved in the Spotlight scandal also pleaded guilty. [4]
Journalist, editor. Spouse. Janet Reardon. . (m. 1968) . Children. 2. Gerard Michael O'Neill (September 1, 1942 – August 22, 2019) was an American journalist, newspaper editor, and writer. A long time investigative reporter for The Boston Globe, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting three times.
1972: Local Reporting, The Boston Globe Spotlight Team for "their exposure of political favoritism and conflict of interest by office holders in Somerville, Massachusetts." [85] 1974: Editorial Cartooning, Paul Szep. [86] 1975: Meritorious Public Service, The Boston Globe, for its "massive and balanced coverage of the Boston school ...
Whitey Bulger. James Joseph " Whitey " Bulger Jr. (/ ˈbʌldʒər / ⓘ; September 3, 1929 – October 30, 2018) was an American organized crime boss who led the Winter Hill Gang, an Irish Mob group in the Winter Hill neighborhood of Somerville, Massachusetts, a city directly northwest of Boston. [ 2 ][ 3 ] On December 23, 1994, Bulger fled the ...
University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Boston University. Phillip James Saviano (June 23, 1952 – November 28, 2021) was an American advocate for survivors of Catholic church sexual abuse. As a youth, Saviano was abused by a priest in the early 1960s. Thirty years later, after reading about the priest abusing other youths in another state ...
Zuckoff was a special projects reporter and a member of the Globe Spotlight Team at the Boston Globe newspaper. [1] He was appointed as a professor in Boston University’s College of Communication, and in 2014, was named the first Sumner N Redstone Professor of Narrative Studies at Boston University. [2] He is the author of eight non-fiction ...