DELAWARE
UDaily
12:38 p.m., March 14, 2016–The editor for the Boston Globe team of investigative journalists that uncovered the Catholic Church’s child sex-abuse scandal, won a Pulitzer Prize and was portrayed in the movie Spotlight will speak at the University of Delaware on Tuesday, March 22.
Walter V. Robinson’s talk, at 7 p.m. in Mitchell Hall on UD’s Newark campus, is sponsored by the Department of English and is free and open to the public.
Robinson, played by Michael Keaton in the Academy Award “Best Picture” winning film, will tell the story of the newspaper’s 2001 investigation and share his thoughts about the film. Earlier in the day, he will speak with UD journalism students and faculty.
A Globe veteran, Robinson was the editor of the paper’s investigative Spotlight Team for seven years, including the reporting project that exposed a pattern of sexual abuse of children by priests in the Boston area and a decades-long cover-up of those crimes. The work sparked similar investigations and disclosures across the country and around the world and won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
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