'Spotlight' Reporter Featured by Lexington's Cary Lecture Series

LEXINGTON, MA – A Boston Globe reporter and member of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Spotlight team will be featured by Cary Lecture Series next month. Sacha Pfeiffer, who helped expose a cover-up of child abuse by the Catholic Church, will headline "Spotlight: A Story of Asking the Right Questions and Holding Institutions Accountable" with co-founder of the Right Question Institute and co-author of "Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions" Dan Rothstein.

The lecture will focus on the role of the press and citizens in asking the right questions to demand accountability in a democracy. It will be held at Cary Hall on March 4 at 8 p.m.

Pfeiffer left the Globe in 2008 to host "All Things Considered" and "Radio Boston" at WBUR. She returned in 2014 and now writes about wealth, philanthropy and nonprofits, as well as travel and other subjects.

Her stint with the Globe's Spotlight team and its investigation into a massive cover-up of child abuse in the Catholic Church was chronicled in the Academy Award-winning film "Spotlight." She was portrayed by Rachel McAdams, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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