Michael Rezendes

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Michael Rezendes is an investigative reporter with The Boston Globe Spotlight Team. He shared a 2003 Pulitzer Prize for exposing the cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, as well as the George Polk Award for National Reporting, the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, and numerous other honors.

As a member of the Spotlight Team, Rezendes also was a 2006 Pulitzer finalist for a series of stories that uncovered abuses in the debt collection industry. Debtors’ Hell won the Public Service Award from the Society of Professional Journalists and was a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize.

While working with the Spotlight Team, Rezendes has investigated the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, financial corruption in the nation’s charitable foundations, and the plight of mentally ill prisoners, among other topics. He is a co-author of Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church, and a contributing author of Sin Against the Innocents: Sexual Abuse by Priests and the Role of the Catholic Church.

A staff writer and editor at the Globe since 1989, Rezendes has covered presidential, state and local politics, and was a weekly essayist, roving national correspondent, city hall bureau chief, and the deputy editor for national news. In 1995, he was part of a reporting team that won a first-place award from the Education Writers Association for a special section on school desegregation. Before arriving at the Globe, Rezendes was a staff writer at The Washington Post, and a government and politics reporter for the San Jose Mercury News and the Boston Phoenix. He was also a contributing writer at Boston magazine and editor of the East Boston Community News. Rezendes graduated from Boston University and received an MFA from the American Film Institute.

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