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Public Lecture: Patricia Wen, \u201cGetting it Right: Investigative Journalism in a \u2018Post-Truth\u2019 Age\u201d<\/h2>\n
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\"PatriciaPATRICIA WEN<\/strong>\u00a0is the editor of the Boston Globe Spotlight Team. She took over this six-member investigative unit after several decades as a reporter at the Globe, with a special emphasis on social service, legal and\u00a0<\/span>medical issues. Her work focused largely on investigative and long-term projects. She also had spent several years as a reporter on the Spotlight Team.\u00a0She has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, once in 2004 for feature writing and also in 2013 as part of a team for national reporting. Wen has also twice individually won the Casey Medal for coverage of children and family issues, in 2004 and 2011, each in the category of a major project\/series in large publications.\u00a0Before joining the Globe, she worked as a reporter at The Star-Ledger in Newark, NJ and The Advocate in Stamford, CT. A Harvard College graduate with a degree in East Asian Studies, she is married with three children and lives in Brookline, Mass.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Parking for the\u00a0April 20<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0lecture by Patricia Wen, Wells Conference Center, is available via three 91¸£Àû entrances off College Avenue: Branch Road near Alfond Arena to the athletics parking lots; and Sebec and Munson roads to the Wells and Dunn lots. Note: Long Road will be closed for the\u00a0Healthy High\u00a0races that begins at\u00a05 p.m.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0that day. A campus map<\/a> is\u00a0online.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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