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Florence SnyderNovember 30, 2015

At long last, there’s an edge-of-seat movie about journalism where the woman on the I-Team is not sleeping with her boss or her source. That’s just one of a million things to love about “Spotlight.” It’s a two-hour cinematic distillation of two years in the lives of Boston Globe reporters as they piece together the […]

Guest AuthorNovember 30, 2015

If you want to be simultaneously appalled and inspired, go see the movie “Spotlight.” It’s about The Boston Globe’s 2001-2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Boston archdiocese’s decades-long cover-up of child sex abuse by its priests and brothers. The film is unusual because it portrays people doing actual journalism. There are no gaggles of goofballs […]

Guest AuthorNovember 29, 2015

If you want to be simultaneously appalled and inspired, go see the movie “Spotlight.” It’s about the Boston Globe’s 2001-2002 Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the Boston archdiocese’s decades-long cover-up of child sex abuse by its priests and brothers. The film is unusual because it portrays people doing actual journalism. There are no gaggles of goofballs […]

Phil AmmannSeptember 28, 2015

Republican Jeb Bush will be hitting New Hampshire airwaves hard in January and February ahead of the first-in-the nation primary. According to the Boston Globe’s Ground Game, the former Florida governor has placed a $4.6 million New Hampshire ad buy on Monday, reserving time in the first two months of 2016. They are the most […]

Mitch PerrySeptember 22, 2015

The percentage of young people who voted in last year’s midterm elections was 19.9 percent, the lowest ever recorded, and significantly below the 24 percent who voted in 2010. At a news conference held at King High School in North Tampa on Tuesday, Michael Malanga, USF Student Body Vice President, was asked why he believed that so few […]

Martin DyckmanFebruary 6, 2015

If it’s too early to anoint a presidential front-runner among the Republicans, the national media are obviously treating Jeb Bush as one. Among the in-depth articles already up and running is a Boston Globe inquiry into his teenage years at the elite Phillips Academy nearly half a century ago. Another is a biting review on […]

Martin DyckmanFebruary 5, 2015

If it’s too early to anoint a presidential front-runner among the Republicans, the national media are obviously treating Jeb Bush as one. Among the in-depth articles already up and running is a Boston Globe inquiry into his teenage years at the elite Phillips Academy nearly half a century ago. Another is a biting review on […]

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Florence Snyder: Church scandal underscores importance of press

Tom O’Hara: “Spotlight” shows journalism at its best, Catholic Church at its worst

Tom O’Hara: “Spotlight” shows journalism at its best, Catholic Church at its worst

Jeb Bush campaign makes $4.6M ad buy for New Hampshire primary

On National Voter Registration Day, Kathy Castor and Craig Latimer try to motivate millennials to vote

Martin Dyckman: Jeb Bush’s behavior in the Schiavo case is unworthy of a governor — or a president

Martin Dyckman: Jeb Bush’s behavior in the Schiavo case is unworthy of a governor — or a president