COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A Boston Globe editor who is portrayed in the Academy Award-winning best picture “Spotlight” is speaking about the movie and the future of investigative journalism.
Editor-at-Large Walter Robinson speaks Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications auditorium at the University of South Carolina.
His talk is free and open to the public.
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Robinson led the Globe’s Spotlight Team, which won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its investigation of sexual abuse by Catholic priests.
Robinson is a 1974 graduate of Northeastern University. He has worked for the Globe since 1972 and has taught at Northeastern University for seven years.
The series is sponsored by the Buchheit Family Endowment, which provides scholarships and fellowships to journalism and communications students.
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