In an early scene of Spotlight, members of the Boston Globe’s eponymous investigative team fret over the arrival of new executive editor Marty Baron and potential layoffs, especially for their resource-intensive staff. When their “player-coach” editor Walter “Robby” Robinson, played by Michael Keaton, presses the incoming editor on his plans for the paper, Baron suggests that the paper needs to take a long hard look at the resources it devotes to its work. But instead of cuts, Baron inspired a year’s worth of reporting that uncovered systemic sexual abuse in the Boston clergy and led the Spotlight team to the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Those journalists — now immortalized by the...
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