WASHINGTON, DC — The award-winning team behind the Boston Globe’s intensive investigation into Catholic church abuses will reunite for a keynote conversation at the 2015 Online News Association Conference & Awards Banquet in Los Angeles.
The Spotlight team will be joined by moderator and screenwriter Josh Singer on Saturday, Sept. 26, as they recount their experiences reporting on the complex story which won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2003, and showcase clips from “Spotlight,” the upcoming movie about the project. Singer will talk with the journalists about how the film, starring Liev Schrieber, Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdams, compares with real-life reporting as the secrecy and cover-ups unfolded.
In theaters this November, “Spotlight” tells the story of then-Boston Globe Editor Marty Baron (Schreiber), Ben Bradlee Jr. (John Slattery) and the four members of the Globe’s investigative Spotlight team — Walter V. Robinson (Michael Keaton), Mike Rezendes (Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (McAdams) and Matt Carroll (Brian d’Arcy James) — who work to expose the Boston Archdiocese’s systemic cover-up of sexual abuse of children by ordained priests, which went undetected for decades..
“We’re seeing a vital renaissance in investigative journalism in the nonprofit, major media and start-up world,” said ONA Executive Director Jane McDonnell. “We’re delighted this inspiring team will be in Los Angeles to share its expertise.”
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