Michael Rezendes is an American journalist who shared a Pulitzer Prize and other awards for his investigative work at The Boston Globe.
[4] For more than a decade, Rezendes was a member of the Boston Globe's Spotlight Team, a group of investigative reporters whose work in exposing various Catholic Church sex abuse cases won the newspaper the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
[6][7][8] Rezendes and the Spotlight Team were also Pulitzer Prize finalists for a series of stories that uncovered abuses in the debt collection industry.
"Debtors Hell" won the Public Service Award from the Society of Professional Journalists and was a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize.
As a Spotlight Team member, Rezendes played a key role in many of the Globe's most significant investigations, including those probing the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, financial corruption in the nation's charitable foundations, and the plight of mentally ill state prisoners.