Shining the Globe's Spotlight on the Catholic Church: after publishing more than 900 articles about sexual molestation by priests, The Boston Globe's coverage isn't over yet. (Journalist's Trade).

Nieman Reports, March, 2003 by Robinson, Walter V.

By August 2001, after three decades of investigative work, The Boston Globe Spotlight Team had filled scores of file drawers, computer queues, and warehoused cartons with left-over documents, old notes and the like, chronicling misdeeds by a cast of scoundrels familiar to reporters at most any newspaper: corrupt politicians and judges, greedy developers, no-show public employees, cops on the take, even an FBI agent who protected mob bosses who had themselves been under the Globe's scrutiny. As far as we can tell, there was nary a file folder on a priest, much less a bishop or a cardinal.

Eighteen months later, the Spotlight Team's offices are littered with stacks of documents and crammed with boxes of the most private and incriminating files of the U.S....

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