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Power of Narrative 2025
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Snitch City: Crafting Compelling Narratives Across Platforms with The Boston Globe's Spotlight Team
Friday March 28, 2025 4:45pm - 5:45pm EDT
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How do you transform a deeply reported investigation into a
compelling, coherent narrative that sings on multiple platforms? The
Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team is doing just that. A year after their
award-winning series, Murder in Boston, the Globe just launched a
Spotlight podcast franchise. Hear from Globe Head of Audio Kristin
Nelson, Spotlight Editor Brendan McCarthy, and reporter Dugan
Arnett detail ‘Snitch City,’ the new investigative series that pulls back
the curtain on police misconduct and confidential informants 
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Dugan Arnett

Investigative reporter at The Boston Globe
Dugan Arnett is an award-winning investigative reporter on TheBoston Globe's quick strike projects team. Since joining the team in2021, his work has spanned a variety of subjects with a focus ongovernment accountability, policing, and the criminal justice system.In 2021, he published... Read More →
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Brendan McCarthy

Editor of The Boston Globe Spotlight Team
Brendan McCarthy is the Globe's Spotlight Editor. He oversees theSpotlight Team and the quick strike investigative team.He previously served six years as deputy projects editor. Duringthat time, he led the team that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize forInvestigative Reporting. The “Blind... Read More →
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Kristin Nelson

Head of Audio at The Boston Globe
Kristin Nelson is Head of Audio at the Boston Globe, working withproducers, editors and reporters to capture the Globe'saward-winning journalism for audio audiences. She is anexperienced journalist, documentarian, story editor and audioproducer. Between 2007 and 2022 she worked with... Read More →
Friday March 28, 2025 4:45pm - 5:45pm EDT
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