Sexual abuse scandal in the Archdiocese of Boston

The Boston Globe Spotlight Team's investigation, from January 6, 2002 The first story showed that the Archdiocese of Boston had known about a priest's abuse and kept moving him between parishes. It rested on church documents a judge had ordered unsealed, which is why the denials could not hold. After it ran, the paper was flooded with calls from victims, and hundreds answered its request for information. The Globe went on to publish more than 900 stories, Cardinal Bernard Law resigned, and the team won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. This is the model the rest of this list learned from, and the best place to begin.