By Alison Bass

Brassy Broad

How One Journalist Helped Pave the Way to #MeToo

Award-winning journalist Alison Bass was one of the first in the country to write about sexual misconduct by men in positions of power. She was also the first reporter at The Boston Globe to write about the molestation of children by Catholic priests (see 1992 article here) — a decade ahead of the Spotlight investigation chronicled in the Oscar-winning 2015 movie. But her success came at a price. Her aggressive reporting style earned her the derisive moniker “brassy broad” as she continued to break stories about government corruption even though it wasn’t her beat. Bass recounts her experiences in Brassy Broad, a memoir that will resonate with everyone who is subject to subtle and overt harassment simply for doing their job. Learn more >>

Publication Date: September 21, 2021

Journalist, Professor, Author

Alison Bass

Alison Bass was a long-time medical and science writer for The Boston Globe.  A series Bass wrote for the Globe on psychiatry was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in the Public Service category. Bass has received a number of other journalism awards for her work.

Bass is the author of two critically acclaimed nonfiction books, Getting Screwed, Sex Workers and the Law and Side Effects: A Prosecutor, a Whistleblower, and A Bestselling Antidepressant on Trial, which received the prestigious National Association of Science Writers’ Science in Society Award. The film rights for Side Effects were optioned in 2016.

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My novel, Rebecca of Ivanhoe, will be published this fall

My novel, Rebecca of Ivanhoe, has been accepted by Bedazzled Ink Publishing and will be released in October. It is a sequel to Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, which told the story of a knight in medieval England who rescues a beautiful Jewish healer from being burned...

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Brassy Broad

Getting Screwed

Side Effects

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