- Title Page
- Introduction
- Boston Globe 唯rief History
- Baron輸 New Face
- An Investigation is Born
- The Spotlight Team
- The National Picture
- The "Most Catholic City"
- Cardinal Law
- The Paper and the Cardinal
- The Globe and Boston's Catholics
- Father Geoghan Case
- Starting to Dig
- Organizing the Files
- The Database Grows
- When the Story Gets Personal
- Reporting Your Culture
- Potential Backlash
- Rezendes Gets a Scoop
- Publish or Pause?
Biography: WalterRobinson
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In 2000, Walter V. Robinson became the Boston Globe assistant managing editor for investigations, and editor of the newspaper's investigative unit, the Spotlight Team.
Robinson spent his career at the Globe , where he specialized in political and investigative stories, as both reporter and editor , and reported stories from 48 of the 50 states and more than 30 foreign countries.
Robinson was a 1974 graduate of Northeastern University. He was a Northeastern junior when he won his first investigative reporting award for the
Globe
. Earlier, he interrupted his Northeastern education to spend four years in the US Army, including a tour in Vietnam as an intelligence officer with the First Cavalry Division. In 1981-82, he was a journalism fellow at Stanford University. From 2000 through 2006, he was the
Globe
's
Listen to Robinson describe "one of the best jobs in journalism."