Betrayal by The Investigative Staff of The Boston Globe

December 17, 2015 by Christina

Nonfiction — print. Little, Brown, 2008. Originally published 2002. 304 pgs. Library copy. As a resident of Boston and someone who briefly worked in journalism, I felt compelled to see “Spotlight”, a feature film that follows the Boston Globe‘s reporting of the Catholic Church child-abuse scandal in 2001-2002. The film certainly makes a compelling case for supporting the local paper and, more specifically, the investigative journalists who take months to develop a story rather than the click-bait headlines that seem to be […]

Categories: 2015 Reads, Crime, New England, Nonfiction, North America, Religion, United States • Tags: Ben Bradlee Jr., Kevin Cullen, Matt Carroll, Michael Paulson, Michael Rezendes, Sacha Pfeiffer, Stephen Kurkjian, The Boston Globe, Thomas Farragher, Walter V. Robinson