The Casting For Spotlight's Real Journalists Is Surprisingly Uncanny

Mad Men star John Slattery portrays the Globe editor who oversees the work of the Spotlight team. Bradlee himself has had journalism in his blood his whole life; his father is Ben Bradlee, who was the executive editor of The Washington Post during the Watergate scandal. After the events in Spotlight, Bradlee left the newspaper to write a biography about famed baseball player Ted Williams, titled The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams.