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Michael Paulson is a religion reporter at the Boston Globe and a member of the team of Globe reporters whose reporting on clergy sexual abuse in the Catholic Church was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service in 2003. He is a four-time winner of the Wilbur Award, for writing about religion in the secular media, from the Religion Communicators Council. A Newton native who now lives in Boston, Paulson joined the Globe in 2000 after working as a general assignment reporter for the Patriot Ledger and then covering politics and government for the San Antonio Light and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.