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by John Horn and Elizabeth Nonemaker | The Frame November 06
When the Boston Globe reported in 2002 on sex abuse lawsuits that were pending against five local priests, it wasn’t the first time the Catholic Church had come under such charges. But the coverage gathered steam and eventually became a national, then international, story.
Victims from around the world came forward with cases that sometimes reached back decades. They revealed not only the extent of abuse, but also the institutionalized efforts to sweep charges under the rug.
In Boston, each of the five charged priests were given prison sentences. Meanwhile, the Boston Globe reporters won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for their coverage.
Now their story is being told. “Spotlight,” written by Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer, explores what it was like for the Globe’s journalists to conduct one of the last great investigative reports before the age of Internet journalism.
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