Spotlight Editor

Thomas Farragher

Farragher is the editor of the Spotlight Team. In 2003, he won the Pulitzer Prize for team coverage of the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church. He has received several other awards, including the 2004 American Society of Newspaper Editors top award for deadline news reporting.

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Connections

Right on, sisters

By Thomas Farragher , Globe staff

No longer remote, unapproachable figures of authority, the nuns I know are now women of advanced degrees and warm wisdom.

Spotlight follow-up

Boston taxi regulator faces misconduct review

By Thomas Farragher and Bob Hohler , Globe Staff

Mark Cohen, whose department is under fire for its oversight of the city’s $1 ­billion cab industry, has been suspended for alleged misconduct with a police department employee.

Boston’s chief taxi regulator suspended

By Thomas Farragher and Bob Hohler , Globe Staff

Mark Cohen, whose department is under fire for its haphazard oversight of the city’s $1 billion cab industry, has been suspended for alleged misconduct with a police department employee.

Mayor Menino orders review of taxi oversight

By Thomas Farragher and Jonathan Saltzman , Globe Staff

The review comes a day after the Globe Spotlight Team documented a lopsided system of enforcement in Boston’s cab industry.