BIOGRAPHY FELLOW 2024 – 2025

Mike Rezendes

For a biography of Jimmy Breslin

Mike Rezendes is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter with the global investigations team at The Associated Press. His recent work includes an examination of child sex abuse in the Mormon Church and financial corruption in the Catholic Church. In 2022, he worked on the ABC-TV drama “Alaska Daily,” starring Hilary Swank. He is writing a biography of the late Jimmy Breslin, the legendary New York reporter who gave voice to the powerless and helped create the New Journalism, to be published by Simon & Schuster. Mike worked for The Boston Globe Spotlight Team where he shared two Pulitzer Prizes, one for revealing the cover-up of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church, and one for covering the bombing of the Boston Marathon. Mike was running the marathon when the bombs exploded and worked into the night covering the tragedy. In 2015, Mike was played by Mark Ruffalo in the Academy Award-winning movie, “Spotlight,” which won the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Screenplay.