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Spotlight on "Spotlight": Marty Baron's entry letter and the winning work

Spotlight, which won the Oscar for best picture of 2015, tells the inside story of a journalistic investigation. Twelve years earlier the story itself won the Pulitzer Gold Medal for Public Service.

News February 24, 2016

I'm in ‘Spotlight’, but it's not really about me. It's about the power of journalism

Martin Baron and his team at The Boston Globe won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, for coverage of the church abuse scandal that rocked the Boston archdiocese. This year the movie version of their reporting is up for an Academy Award. And he'll be watching.