Michael Paulson is an American journalist. From 2000 to 2010 he covered religion for

The Boston Globe ''The Boston Globe,'' also known locally as ''the Globe'', is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes. ''The Boston Globe'' is the oldest and largest daily new ...

. Since 2010, he has worked at the

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, where he initially continued his religion coverage. His work there reflected his early politics roots and continued to tie religion to national issues. Since April 2015, he has covered theater at the ''New York Times''.

Personal

Paulson is a native of

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and now lives in

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. He graduated from Newton South High School and obtained his degree from

Haverford College Haverford College ( ) is a private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded as a men's college in 1833 by members of the Religious Society of Fr ...

Career

Mr. Paulson was the National Religion reporter for the ''

''. While working for The Boston Globe, Paulson was responsible for covering the world's faith and spirituality. He began working for The Boston Globe in January 2000. Prior to this, his career included seven years working as a city hall reporter, a state house bureau chief, and as a Washington correspondent at the

Seattle Post-Intelligencer The ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'' (popularly known as the ''Seattle P-I'', the ''Post-Intelligencer'', or simply the ''P-I'') is an online newspaper and former print newspaper based in Seattle, Washington (state), Washington, United States. Th ...

. Before that he worked as a political reporter for the San Antonio Light in

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Books

Paulson co-authored the book, "Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church".

Awards

Paulson won a number of awards which include: *In 2003, he shared in the

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for his coverage of child abuse affairs in the

archdiocese of Boston The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Boston () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or archdiocese, of the Catholic Church in eastern Massachusetts in the United States. Its mother church is the Cathedral of the Holy Cross (Boston), Cathedral o ...

. He has also won the Mike Berger, Templeton and Supple awards in 2008, and is a four-time winner of the Religion Communicators Council's Wilbur Award for his coverage of the Boston archdiocese abuse scandal, the elevation of Episcopal

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, closing parishes, and the death of

Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II (born Karol Józef Wojtyła; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 16 October 1978 until Death and funeral of Pope John Paul II, his death in 2005. In his you ...

. *Associated Press Managing Editors' Freedom of Information Award *

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George Polk Award The George Polk Awards in Journalism are a series of American journalism awards presented annually by Long Island University in New York in the United States. A writer for Idea Lab, a group blog hosted on the website of PBS, described the awar ...

*A medal from

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* Selden Ring Award *

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from the

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*Taylor Family Award *Worth Bingham Award *The New York Times Company's Punch Sulzberger Award *His team also won a media award from the Massachusetts Association and the Spirit Award from Jane Doe Inc.

References

Media coverage of Catholic Church sexual abuse scandals Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Newton South High School alumni Haverford College alumni American male journalists {{US-journalist-20thC-stub

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