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Mitch PerryFebruary 29, 2016

I was delighted to read online in the middle of the night that “Spotlight,” the Tom McCarthy directed film about the Boston Globe’s investigations into the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse scandal, won Best Picture at the 2016 Academy Awards last night. I read about it, because I wasn’t staying up past midnight to find out […]

Florence SnyderDecember 1, 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 […]

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 […]

Mitch PerryNovember 23, 2015

A good (and finally, chilly) Monday morning to you all. Over the weekend I saw Spotlight, the superb new film that depicts The Boston Globe‘s investigation regarding allegations of sexual abuse by hundreds of clergy in the Boston archdiocese (Special props to actor Mark Ruffalo, sporting the best bowl haircut seen in a premium film in years). The […]

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Mitch Perry Report for 2.29.16 – #OscarsSoLong

Florence Snyder: Church scandal underscores importance of press

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

Mitch Perry Report for 11.23.15 — “Spotlight” sparkles