Dec. 4, 2009

This cover of the interactive PDF program book for the 2010 New England Newspaper and Press Association convention is
a guide to the convention in more ways than one. To view what you're interested in about the convention -- a schedule of events; convention registration; booking a hotel room at the convention site -- simply click on the cover image and it will open the program book. Inside the book you can "click here"
on the listed page to register for the convention or to book a hotel room.

By Cecilia Akuffo
Bulletin Staff

Walter V. Robinson recalls that on Martin Baron’s first day as editor of The Boston Globe in July 2001, he asked the Globe’s Spotlight Team to investigate the case of a single priest who been accused of sexually molesting children.

But in looking at the case of defrocked pedophile priest John J. Geoghan, Robinson and his team of investigative reporters made a fateful decision: They decided to find out everything they could about the issue.

With that wide-angle-lens approach, the Spotlight Team uncovered a decades-long cover-up that reached to the top levels of the Roman Catholic Church – scores of priests in Boston, and thousands nationwide -- had been accused of sexually abusing children. In pursuing an investigation into Geoghan, a far greater story emerged, one that led to a Pulitzer Prize for public service for the Globe in 2003.

Among the topics Robinson will discuss at a workshop on “Investigative Reporting” at the New England Newspaper and Press Association’s 2010 convention is the Globe’s reporting on the scandal involving sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests. MORE >

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