Journalist Walter Robinson: In the Spotlight

Dialogue with Marcia Franklin

English - July 25, 2021 06:30 - 29 minutes - 28.8 MB
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Marcia Franklin talks with Walter Robinson, former editor of the Boston Globe's Spotlight team. The team won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its investigation of the cover-up within the Boston Archdiocese of sexual abuse by clergy. Robinson talks about the importance of the investigation, the stresses involved, and the Academy Award-winning movie made about it, "Spotlight."

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Originally Aired: 11/18/2016

The interview is part of Dialogue’s series “Conversations from the Sun Valley Writers' Conference” and was taped at the 2016 conference. Since 1995, the conference has been bringing together some of the world’s most well-known and illuminating authors to discuss literature and life.