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Boston Globe Spotlight Team @globespotlight.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A new Spotlight report explores how a man who bought up Massachusetts nursing homes drove some of the state's top-rated facilities down into the lowest ranks. Regulators kept waving him ahead to the next purchase. Read more: trib.al/h3HUF3D

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Boston Globe Spotlight Team @globespotlight.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

A Middlesex County grand jury indicted Dr. Derrick Todd on charges that he sexually assaulted 11 patients. This comes months after a Spotlight story detailing how hundreds of patients said they were abused by the renowned doctor. trib.al/JB4rcJO

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Boston Globe Spotlight Team @globespotlight.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

After the Spotlight Team requested data from each of the state’s more than 400 law enforcement agencies, we built a searchable tool with all the data. Now you can see how your police department uses confidential informants. trib.al/muBNAez

White text on a red background. Text at the top reads: “Here’s how police in your community use confidential informants. The Spotlight Team requested data from each of the state’s more than 400 law enforcement agencies about confidential informants. Our tool shows how each responded.” Underneath the text, a dropdown menu reads “Search for an agency.” Following it is the beginning of a list of law enforcement agencies in Massachusetts.

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Boston Globe Spotlight Team @globespotlight.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Listen to our bonus episode of "Snitch City." This eight-year case first brought a Globe reporter to New Bedford, laying the groundwork for this very podcast on confidential informants. Finally, it's time to hear the outcome. link.chtbl.com/tTLbVzKf?sid...

A police officer looks at a person inside a jail cell. Text on the card reads: “Spotlight: Snitch City”

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Boston Globe Spotlight Team @globespotlight.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

In Massachusetts, thousands of informants are at work. There’s no laws, and few guidelines to protect them, experts said. This is the story of broken promises from police that left one man in fear for his life. trib.al/E7KfOoh

An illustration shows a person in a prison cell, dressed in an orange jumpsuit, facing a window. Text on the card reads: ‘Whatever they said, I would do it.’ Inside the shrinking world of one confidential informant.

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Boston Globe Spotlight Team @globespotlight.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Our new investigation begins with a death at a Steward hospital. It was followed quickly by a top state official calling with a request. It's just one of several examples of the often-accommodating relationship between Steward executives and state regulators. trib.al/4BMlHQb

A screenshot from the story reads: On Sept. 13, 2023, a triage nurse in the Brockton hospital’s overwhelmed emergency department received a plea for help from a patient in the registration line. Suffering from acute chest pain and shortness of breath, 37-year-old Jennifer Knight believed she was having a heart attack.

But 10 hours into her nonstop shift, with too few nurses to handle a surge of patients, the nurse sent Knight back to the line, without evaluating her or checking her vital signs, according to investigators. Knight collapsed just 20 minutes later and died.

That decision, and the tragedy that followed, led to the nurse’s termination weeks later, according to hospital records, and prompted an immediate protest from the nurses union.

The response from the Healey administration was also swift. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kate Walsh reached out directly to Steward’s CEO. In that call, she didn’t focus on the fatal lapse in care. Rather, she had a request.

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