Michael Rezendes

Michael Rezendes is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and political writer for the Boston Globe. Since joining the Globe in 1989 he has covered presidential, state and local politics, and was a weekly essayist, roving national correspondent, city hall bureau chief, and the deputy editor for national news.

For nearly a decade Rezendes was also a member of the Globe's Spotlight Team, where he shared a Pulitzer Prize for investigating the cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. For his reporting and writing on the Church, he also shared the George Polk Award for National Reporting, the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, and numerous other honors.

Rezendes was the lead writer and reporter on the opening story of the Globe's series on the Church, revealing that top Catholic officials had veiled the abuses committed by the Rev. John J. Geoghan, a Boston priest who molested more than 100 children in six parishes over three decades. In addition, Rezendes broke the stories about similar cover-ups by Church officials in New York City and Tucson, Arizona.^[1][2]

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Rezendes and the Spotlight Team were also Pulitzer Prize finalists for a series of stories that uncovered abuses in the debt collection industry. "Debtors Hell" won the Public Service Award form the Society of Professional Journalists and was a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize.

As a Spotlight Team member, Rezendes played a key role in many of the Globe's most significant investigations, including those probing the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, financial corruption in the nation's charitable foundations, and the plight of mentally ill state prisoners. He was also on a team of reporters that won a first-place award from the Education Writers Association for a special section on school desegregation.

In 2008 and 2009, he was the recipient of a John S. Knight journalism fellowship at Stanford University.

Before arriving at the Globe, Rezendes was a staff writer at The Washington Post, and a government and politics reporter for the San Jose Mercury News and the Boston Phoenix. He was also a contributing writer at Boston magazine and the editor of the East Boston Community News. He is a co-author of "Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church," and a contributing author to "Sin Against the Innocents: Sexual Abuse by Priests and the Role of the Catholic Church."

Rezendes graduated from Boston University with a BA in English.

References

1. ^ Henley, Joe [1] "How the Boston Globe exposed the abuse scandal that rocked the Catholic Church"], "The Guardian", London, 21 April 2010.
2. ^ Harris, Roy J. Jr. [2] "Pulitzer's Gold: Behind the Prize for Public Service Journalism," University of Missouri Press 2007
3. ^ Plante, Thomas G. [3] "Sin Against the Innocents: Sexual Abuse by Priests and the Role of the Catholic Church," Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. 2004

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