Not exact matches
Ultimately, «Spotlight» turns on two key
outsiders that take on the Church:
editor Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber), who shifted the paper's focus
from international to local investigative coverage, and attorney Mitchell Garabedian (Stanley Tucci), who represented the victims.
It allows the ensemble cast to shine without showing off: Michael Keaton, fresh
from Birdman, makes a second, perhaps even better comeback as Bostonian Robby Robinson who heads up the paper's investigative team; Liev Schreiber is the paper's new
editor, an
outsider and Jewish in a heavily Catholic city; Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdams are reporters on the front line, knocking on doors and digging out documents.
When a new
editor, Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber), comes on board, he is perceived as an
outsider because he's not
from Boston at all (he is first seen boning up on the city by devouring «The Curse of the Bambino.»)
The abuse has been going on for years, but it takes an
outsider — the paper's new
editor, Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber)-- to assign the crack Spotlight team, the journalists committed to pursuing long - term stories, to uncover enough evidence to drag the scandal out
from the shadows.
Set in 2001, the movie begins with the arrival of the Boston Globe's new
Editor - in - Chief, Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber), an
outsider from Miami who was brought in by the newspaper's parent company to help shake up the newsroom and stop the leak in the dwindling subscriber base.
From an
outsider's perspective, an immediate worry about this approach is that the site could potentially operate in a manner similar to a Hollywood focus group, encouraging authors (consciously or not) to cut anything difficult or alienating in favour of a blander, more widely acceptable middle ground — trying to appeal to all of the people all of the time rather than trusting the judgement of one auxiliary pair of eyes (speaking of which, professional
editors probably won't be too chuffed either).
Misha is a published author of Manifesting Things (2008) and
editor and publisher of 9/11: Voices
from the
Outsider Media (2011).
I speak
from first - hand experience as a member of the MBA who has served on multiple committees and also as the one - time
editor of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly who covered the MBA as an
outsider.