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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