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Legacy.com is a United States-based website founded in 1998, [2] the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials. [3] The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. [4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. [5]
The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes. [4] Its reported daily circulation had fallen to under 69,000 copies per day as of June 2022. [5] It reported 300,000 print and digital subscribers in 2017.
Ben Bradlee Jr. Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee Jr. (born August 7, 1948) is an American journalist and writer. He was a reporter and editor at The Boston Globe for 25 years, including a period when he supervised the Pulitzer Prize –winning investigation into sexual abuse by priests in the Boston archdiocese, and is the author of a ...
Sacha Pfeiffer (born September 7, 1971) is an American Pulitzer Prize -winning investigative journalist and radio host. In November 2018, she joined NPR as an investigations correspondent. [2] Pfeiffer is known for her work with the Spotlight team run by The Boston Globe. [3] Their stories on the Catholic Church's cover-up of clergy sex abuse ...
In early 2002, The Boston Globe published results of an investigation that led to the criminal prosecutions of five Roman Catholic priests and thrust the sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy into the national spotlight. [1] [2] [3] Another accused priest who was involved in the Spotlight scandal also pleaded guilty. [4]
Benjamin B. Taylor (born c. 1947) is an American former journalist and newspaper executive who served as publisher of The Boston Globe from 1997 to 1999, the fifth and final member of the Taylor family to oversee the Globe during a 126-year period. Biography. Taylor was born in Natick, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard College.
Spotlight is a 2015 American biographical drama film directed by Tom McCarthy and written by McCarthy and Josh Singer. The film follows The Boston Globe 's "Spotlight" team, the oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative journalist unit in the United States, and its investigation into a decades-long coverup of widespread and systemic child sex abuse by numerous priests of the Roman ...
Bob Ryan. Robert P. Ryan (born February 21, 1946) is an American sportswriter, formerly with The Boston Globe, and author. He has been described as "the quintessential American sportswriter" and a basketball guru, [1] and is well known for his coverage of the sport including his famous stories covering the Boston Celtics in the 1970s.