UNITED STATES
Boston Globe
By Dan Adams GLOBE CORRESPONDENT DECEMBER 09, 2015
Inspired by the success of the movie “Spotlight,” the Boston Globe and the Hollywood companies behind the film have set up a $100,000 fellowship to promote investigative journalism.
The selected fellow or team of reporters will work with the Boston Globe Spotlight team on an investigative story that could be published by the paper.
The Spotlight Investigative Journalism Fellowship is being funded by Participant Media and Open Road Films, the Hollywood firms behind “Spotlight,” a recent film that dramatizes the 2001 efforts of the paper’s investigative unit to uncover sexual abuse in the Catholic church. Online news publisher First Look Media is also supporting the fellowship.
“The Boston Globe has an unwavering commitment to produce high-impact investigative stories that pierce secrecy and shine a light on issues, individuals, and institutions to expose the truth,” said the paper’s editor Brian McGrory, in a statement. “Whether it is the Spotlight Team’s investigation of the Catholic Church in 2002; its relentless reporting of the criminal dealings of James ‘Whitey’ Bulger and his ties to federal law enforcement; or its most recent report on hospitals where doctors are running two surgeries at once, accountability reporting is an integral part of The Boston Globe’s daily coverage.”
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