Marty Baron drove the Boston Globe’s
relentless reporting of the Catholic Church’s cover-up in the US. The
paper’s hard slog is now the subject of a Hollywood hit. Shortly after the Boston Globe began to break stories about sexual abuse by priests and the decades-long cover-up by the Catholic Church, in 2002, the newspaper’s editor, Marty Baron, received a letter.
It was from a prominent Bostonian, complaining about
the coverage by the newspaper and its Spotlight investigative team. He
wrote that such a story would never have been pursued under previous
editors of the Globe. The editors all had Irish Catholic names.