We had to investigate the Globe's investigation, which, for us, shed new meaning on the Globe journalists' original findings. To get there, we had to do our own digging. Of course, you won't find that story in this book. That is why we decided to tell the Spotlight story.

Insight into how a team of four journalists and their two primary editors broke the story might help the world appreciate the reporting in these pages that much more-and appreciate why there is still very much a need for traditional investigative journalism. Nothing could possibly add to the significance of that. The reporting in the pages of this book truly rocked the world. It was these findings that led to similar investigations in dozens of cities in the United States and around the world-all of which served to shed light on the larger issue of clergy sex abuse and the institutional cover-up that allowed it to persist, an issue that we are still grappling with today. Taken together, they tell a larger narrative of corruption and concealment, of a scandal at the core of the Boston archdiocese, one of the most powerful institutions in New England. The pages of this book contain the findings of the Boston Globe Spotlight Team-hard facts and even harder stories of priests, lawyers, and survivors that had been hidden for dozens of years. Many would point out that there's more information available now than ever before, and, to that end, some would argue there is no longer a need for traditional investigative journalism. Of course, there has been innovation online. And thousands of reporters have lost their jobs. Newspaper revenues in 2014 were less than half of what they were ten years earlier. Over a dozen metro dailies have gone out of print. The past ten years have been very unkind to the newspaper business, especially on the local level. A Statement from Spotlight Director Tom McCarthy and Screenwriter Josh Singer

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