Impact on Journalism: Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team

The Boston Globe’s Spotlight team is a team of investigative journalists at the Boston Globe. While this team obviously had many reincarnations with different people making up the team, the most famous team is the 2001-2002 team which uncovered the abuse of children that the Catholic Church had been hiding.

The team was made famous to more mainstream audiences with the release of the movie Spotlight in 2015, which starred Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, and Stanley Tucci.

The movie really shows the impact that a story can have on so many people, people in the future and the past as well. It helps give people the justice they deserve and prevent anything like that happening again.

It is such a good example of journalism that I watched this movie in my Intro to Journalism class Freshman year.

I would highly recommend this movie to anyone interested in journalism or anyone who just wants to watch a really good movie. The movie is so good in fact that it was given the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2015!

Have you seen this movie? What did you think about it?

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