Brendan McCarthy

Brendan McCarthy is the deputy projects editor and oversees the quick strike investigative team. He led the team that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for a series about roadway safety. Before coming to the Globe in 2018, McCarthy was the founding editor of the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit newsroom that specialized in audio investigations. There, he shepherded a podcast that won a Peabody award, as well as projects that garnered IRE awards, and national and regional Edward R. Murrow honors. As a reporter, McCarthy covered crime and corruption in New Orleans for The Times-Picayune. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and received Columbia University’s Mike Berger award in 2009 for an eight-part narrative series about a boy’s murder. McCarthy also was part of a team that won a George Polk award for uncovering police abuses. He previously worked in television at WWL-TV in New Orleans and as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune. A proud native of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, McCarthy graduated from Emerson College.