Editor
Scott Allen is editor of the Spotlight Team, the Globe’s investigative reporting unit. In more than 20 years at the Globe, he has covered the environment and medicine and served as the Globe’s Health and Science editor before becoming an investigative reporter in 2008. A graduate of Bowdoin College, he was also a journalism fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Latest stories
Homeowners billed for houses lost in foreclosure
By Jenifer McKim and Jess Aloe , New England Center for Investigative Reporting
An insurance industry practice has the potential to flatten tens of thousands of former homeowners as they get back on their feet.
UMass Amherst to end use of student informants
By Eric Bosco , Globe Correspondent
The decision by the school comes after an informant used by the university police died of a heroin overdose.
Tentative deal reached in 2d Bridgewater hospital lawsuit
By Scott Allen , Globe Staff
The lawsuit was aimed at improving the treatment of patients with mental illness at the state hospital.
Partners pays a price after bid for South Shore Hospital
By Robert Weisman and Scott Allen , Globe Staff
When Partners HealthCare struck a deal with the attorney general to acquire three more hospitals, rivals finally took a public stand.
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