Reliving connections with an 'Oscars' hero

Former China Daily journalists catch up with Boston Globe colleague who found fame with Spotlight

Spotlight, the movie named after the Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative team that in the early 2000's wrote an explosive series on child sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church and its attendant cover-up, was a surprise winner at this year's Academy Awards. But that was not the only surprise.

Who could imagine that a story about shoe leather journalism, about the drudgery of digging for facts and knocking on doors, about the tedium of finding and poring over thousands of documents, could be depicted with such authenticity and yet be such an immersive and moving experience?