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Patricia Wen, former editor of the Boston Globe Spotlight team, on “Investigative Journalism in a ‘Post-truth Age’”
April 20, 2018 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
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Public Lecture by Patricia Wen, editor of the Boston Globe Spotlight Team
Patricia Wen is the editor of the Boston Globe Spotlight Team, the nation’s oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative unit. She took over the six-member team after several decades of working as one of its reporters. Over the years, Wen has specialized in covering social service, legal and medical issues. She 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 also has twice won the Casey Medal for coverage of children and family issues. The Spotlight Team’s work on the Catholic clergy sex abuse scandal was featured in the 2016 Academy Award-winning movie, “Spotlight.”
The lecture will be held on Friday, April 20 at 4:30 p.m. in the Wells Conference Center at the University of Maine. This event is free and open to the public.