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Pro Publica

[with audio]

by Cynthia Gordy
ProPublica, Nov. 2, 2015

After a Boston priest was convicted of sexually abusing more than 100 children, a team of Boston Globe reporters published an investigation that shocked the city. The Globe’s investigative unit, known as the “Spotlight” team, revealed in 2002 that Catholic Church leaders knew about child abuse by dozens of priests for decades and covered it up, reassigning the abusers to new parishes while paying millions in settlements to a trail of victims. The new film Spotlight, in theaters on Nov. 6, chronicles the Pulitzer-winning investigation that exposed the scandal.

On this week’s podcast, we’re joined by four key players in the Globe’s investigation: reporters Walter “Robby” Robinson, Sacha Pfeiffer and Michael Rezendes, and deputy managing editor Ben Bradlee Jr. In a conversation with ProPublica editor-in-chief Stephen Engelberg, they take us inside their experience of reporting this…