Best of Boston

2002 Best Comeback

Globe Spotlight Team

The Boston Globe Spotlight Team, whose Pulitzer Prize-worthy coverage of the archdiocesan sex scandal was earth-shattering journalism at its and a return to the kind of aggressive investigative reporting that is badly needed in this town after years of newspaper “exposés” about such easy targets as crooked small-town building inspectors and ticket scalpers outside Fenway Park (no, really?)