‘Spotlight’ journalist got his start at Press-Enterprise in 1970s

Ben Bradlee Jr. was born in New Hampshire, grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was the son of Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee of Watergate fame.

Bradlee Jr. gained a measure of renown himself as an editor of a Boston Globe series that uncovered the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse scandal in Boston. The story behind the Pulitzer-winning expose was told in the 2015 movie “Spotlight,” an Academy Award winner for best picture.

Curiously enough, the New Englander’s newspaper career began in Riverside.