This is on the media's midweek podcast. I'm Brooke Gladstone, and I want to introduce you to an

esteemed journalist who will be filling in for me for the next few weeks. Sasha Pfeiffer is currently

an investigations reporter for NPR. But some years back, she was part of the Boston Globe's

spotlight team, the team which exposed the clergy sex abuse covered

up by the Catholic Church and earned the newspaper, the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

Oh, and she's got hosting chops, too, as senior reporter and host of all things considered

and Radio Boston at WBUR. By way of introduction,

this week's podcast is the interview I did with Sasha and her Boston Globe colleague Walter Robinson,

who goes by the name Robbie, back in October 2015. Spotlight the movie had just come out, starring Michael Keaton as Robbie, and Rachel McAdams

as Sasha.

The film sets the scene in 2001 when a new editor arrives at the globe.

Marty Barron, played by Leib Schreiber, meets with Robbie at a restaurant, and he asks how the spotlight team operates.

Well, we are a four-person investigative team, and we keep our work confidential.

What are you working on now?

We just put out a piece on a shoddy construction outfit, and right now we're really just trolling around for our next story.

How long does that typically take?

Hard to say, a couple of months.

A couple months?

Yeah, we don't like to rush it.

Once we settle on a project, we can spend a year or more investigating it.

Is that a concern?

Not necessarily.

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