Mike Rezendes

Mike Rezendes has been a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter with the Associated Press and The Boston Globe Spotlight team. His recent journalism includes an investigation into the cover-up of child sex abuse in the Mormon Church, and financial corruption in the Catholic Church. Mike is also a television writer, a screenwriter, and a biographer. In 2022, he was a staff writer on the ABC TV drama Alaska Daily, starring Hilary Swank. He is currently at work on a biography of the late Jimmy Breslin, the legendary New York reporter who gave voice to the powerless and helped create the New Journalism. Previously, Mike shared two Pulitzer Prizes while working for The Boston Globe, one for revealing the cover-up of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church, and one for covering the bombing of the Boston Marathon. Mike was running the marathon when the bombs exploded and worked into the night covering the tragedy. Mike was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist twice, once for an investigation of the debt collection industry, and again for an exposé of the mental health care system in Massachusetts. Mike was played by Mark Ruffalo in the Academy Award–winning movie, Spotlight, which won the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Screenplay in 2016.