Michael Paulson

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Michael Paulson is an American journalist. From 2000 to 2010 he covered religion for The Boston Globe. [1] [2] Since 2010, he has worked at the New York Times, where he initially continued his religion coverage. His work there reflected his early politics roots and continued to tie religion to national issues. [3] Since April 2015, he has covered theater at the New York Times. [4] [5]

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Personal

Paulson is a native of Newton, Massachusetts and now lives in Boston. He graduated from Newton South High School and obtained his degree from Haverford College.

Career

Mr. Paulson was the National Religion reporter for the New York Times . [6] While working for The Boston Globe, Paulson was responsible for covering the world's faith and spirituality. He began working for The Boston Globe in January 2000. Prior to this, his career included seven years working as a city hall reporter, a state house bureau chief, and as a Washington correspondent at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Before that he worked as a political reporter for the San Antonio Light in Texas.

Books

Paulson co-authored the book, "Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church". [1]

Awards

Paulson won a number of awards which include:

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