Why investigative journalism matters more than ever

“If you knock on a door and it doesn’t open, keep knocking. It’s persistence that gets results in journalism.”
The Boston Globe’s Editor At Large, Walter V Robinson, was famously immortalised by Michael Keaton in the Oscar-winning movie Spotlight, about his team of investigative reporters that lifted the lid on institutional child sexual abuse in Boston’s Catholic Church. Here he discusses the importance of investigative reporting, and the challenges it faces today.
Episode recorded: June 1, 2018.
Interviewer: Louise Bennet.
Audio engineering: Arch Cuthbertson.
Producer and editor: Chris Hatzis.
Co-production: Dr Andi Horvath and Silvi Vann-Wall.
Banner image: Front page of the Sunday Boston Globe on May 8, 2016, featuring details of abuse at a private school in New England. Picture: Getty Images.

“If you knock on a door and it doesn’t open, keep knocking. It’s persistence that gets results in journalism.”

The Boston Globe’s Editor At Large, Walter V Robinson, was famously immortalised by Michael Keaton in the Oscar-winning movie Spotlight, about his team of investigative reporters that lifted the lid on institutional child sexual abuse in Boston’s Catholic Church. Here he discusses the importance of investigative reporting, and the challenges it faces today.

Episode recorded: June 1, 2018.

Interviewer: Louise Bennet.

Audio engineering: Arch Cuthbertson.

Producer and editor: Chris Hatzis.

Co-production: Dr Andi Horvath and Silvi Vann-Wall.

Banner image: Front page of the Sunday Boston Globe on May 8, 2016, featuring details of abuse at a private school in New England. Picture: Getty Images.