Associate editor and columnist
Thomas Farragher is a Globe columnist and associate editor. He shared the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for public service for the Globe Spotlight Team’s coverage of the clergy sexual abuse crisis. He spent eight years, from 2006 to 2014, as editor of the Spotlight Team. His columns appears regularly in the Globe.
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THOMAS FARRAGHER
When a Newton family welcomed a baby who is deaf, 20 neighbors learned sign language
By Thomas Farragher , Globe Columnist
This is the story of how American Sign Language became a second tongue on part of Islington Road.
THOMAS FARRAGHER
‘There was no one like him’: How Tommy Leonard’s friends are saying goodbye
By Thomas Farragher , Globe Columnist
Anyone who has heard the remarkable story of Tommy Leonard, a legendary organizer of the Falmouth Road Race, would never that he was one of a kind and beloved by all.
THOMAS FARRAGHER
For a baby in need and a nurse, it was love at first sight
By Thomas Farragher , Globe Columnist
Liz Smith knows this: A little girl opened a little door into her heart.
Thomas Farragher
Where kidney transplants are a family heritage
By Thomas Farragher , Globe staff
Erin Brunelle is — indirectly — donating one of her kidneys to a family member in an act of family allegiance and selfless medical heroism.