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| Born | Gerard Michael O'Neill (1942-09-01)September 1, 1942 Boston,Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | August 22, 2019(2019-08-22) (aged 76) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, editor |
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| Children | 2 |
Gerard Michael O'Neill (September 1, 1942 – August 22, 2019) was an American journalist, newspaper editor, and writer. A long time investigative reporter forThe Boston Globe, he was awarded thePulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting three times.
Born in Boston, O'Neill graduated fromStoughton High School andStonehill College; earning a degree in English at the latter institution in 1964.[1] He attendedGeorge Washington University Law School before earning a master's degree in journalism fromBoston University in 1970.[1] For 35 years he was an investigative reporter and editor forThe Boston Globe, and was notably one of the three original reporters on the Globe's " Spotlight" team.[1] He was first awarded thePulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 1972[2] for a major investigation of corruption inSomerville, Massachusetts; an award he would receive two more times during his career.[3]
O'Neill's most notable piece of investigative reporting was in 1988 when he and journalistDick Lehr published a story revealing that mobsterWhitey Bulger was an FBI informant while still actively committing crimes. The two men would go on to write three books together, including two aboutBlack Mass: The Irish Mob, the FBI, and a Devil’s Deal (2000) andWhitey: The Life of America’s Most Notorious Mob Boss (2013).[1] The former book was anEdgar Award[4] winner, and was made into a2015 movie starringJohnny Depp as Bulger.[1][3]
O'Neill died on August 22, 2019, frominterstitial lung disease at his home inNeedham, Massachusetts, a close-in suburb of Boston.[1]
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