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Thursday, May 5, 2016 from 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM (CDT)

C.S.P.S. Hall
1103 3rd Street Southeast
Cedar Rapids, IA 52401

2016 Best Picture “Spotlight” shines a light on the impact of investigative journalism and a real news team at the Boston Globe. Join us for an evening celebrating IowaWatch, a statewide non-profit news organization, as we talk live via Skype with a member of the Spotlight team before we watch the film.

Doors open at 6:30. Guests can enjoy a cash bar and complimentary desserts. The program will begin at 7 p.m.

Matt Carroll, who describes himself as a data geek, was one of the four people on the Boston Globe’s original Spotlight team that won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for exposing clergy sex abuse in the Catholic Church. In the movie “Spotlight”, Carroll is played by Brian d’Arcy James. Although Carroll left the…