The Casting For Spotlight's Real Journalists Is Surprisingly Uncanny

The lone female member of the Spotlight team is originally from Ohio and joined the Boston Globe in 1995. She was asked by Walter Robinson (played by Michael Keaton in the movie) to join the team, which would win the Pulitzer in 2003 for its investigation into the sexual abuse of the Catholic church's clergy. Pfeiffer is currently a columnist at the Globe, was a host of All Things Considered for NPR in Boston and cowrote the book Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church.