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Guided ballpark tours; the public tour was listed at $30 for adults when we looked. Pictured: the main entrance, 2007.
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Frame 01 · The Boston Globe, Dorchester · 2015
Spotlight
Half of this film was shot in Boston. The newsroom was built to match, outside Toronto. Wind the reel and say which is which.
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Shot or built?
Six frames from the film. For each, choose where it was made. The frame develops with what the makers and the local press said.
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Frame 1 · Fenway Park
Where was this made?
Choose Boston or Toronto.
Undeveloped.
Pick an answer to read the frame.
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Measured, then rebuilt
Production designer Stephen H. Carter measured the layout of the Globe’s headquarters and used the specs to re-create 120 cubicles in a vacant Sears department store outside Toronto.
Carter also dressed several scenes shot on the Globe’s real premises, including the presses and the library. He said that was production value they could not have got any other way.
Carter kept the 2001 office honest: most staff used old CRT monitors, since flat screens were then a high-end item, and he policed anachronisms.
Executive editor Marty Baron’s office got a pink flamingo like his real one, then it was tucked behind a bookcase because the hot pink distracted.
By June 2017 the Globe had moved out of Morrissey Boulevard for new quarters downtown. Its report says the director spent about a year there researching, and that the newsroom and Spotlight offices were rebuilt in a Toronto warehouse.
The Globe has left; OpenStreetMap now maps the address as Southline Boston. Seen from Morrissey Boulevard; no public access to the old plant.
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Go and read the places
Fenway Park, the Boston Public Library, the Old State House and Union Park can be visited. The Globe’s old plant and Boston College High School are seen from the road; the Globe has since left Morrissey Boulevard.
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Where it is now
6 Boston places from the film, from the Globe’s old home in Dorchester to the South End.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
Site reference · Restricted access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. The Globe has left; OpenStreetMap now maps the address as Southline Boston. Seen from Morrissey Boulevard; no public access to the old plant.
Building reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working ballpark with public tours; the ticket windows and the main entrance are on Yawkey Way and Jersey Street.
Building reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A free public library facing Copley Square. Check opening hours; guided and self-guided visits are listed on its site.
Building reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A museum building on a busy downtown corner. The street is public; check opening hours for the museum.
Area reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A small oval garden between two rows of houses. Keep to the park and the pavement; the houses around it are private.
Site reference · Restricted access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. An active school campus; seen from the road. There is no public access to the grounds.
The Boston Globe’s headquarters at 135 Morrissey Boulevard, Dorchester, September 2009. Emw · CC BY-SA 3.0 135 Morrissey Boulevard, Dorchester
The Boston Globe, Morrissey Boulevard
The press kit says the film begins and ends in the Globe offices.
The Globe has left; OpenStreetMap now maps the address as Southline Boston. Seen from Morrissey Boulevard; no public access to the old plant.
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The main entrance of Fenway Park on Yawkey Way, October 2007. Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0 4 Jersey Street, Fenway-Kenmore
Fenway Park
The press kit lists scenes filmed at Fenway Park, which suited Slattery, a hometown boy whose uncle worked there for decades as a Red Sox employee.
A working ballpark with public tours; the ticket windows and the main entrance are on Yawkey Way and Jersey Street.
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The Boston Public Library’s McKim building facing Copley Square, July 2006. Boston Starbucks Rebel · Public domain 700 Boylston Street, Back Bay
Boston Public Library, Copley Square
The press kit quotes Sacha Pfeiffer on watching Rachel McAdams walk down the steps of the Boston Public Library: “That’s me.”
A free public library facing Copley Square. Check opening hours; guided and self-guided visits are listed on its site.
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The Old State House, Boston, November 2006. Daniel Schwen · CC BY-SA 2.5 Congress and State Streets, Downtown
Old State House
Curbed counts at least two shots at the Old State House, at Congress and State Streets.
A museum building on a busy downtown corner. The street is public; check opening hours for the museum.
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The South End Service Memorial in the oval garden of Union Park, May 2025. Daderot · CC0 Union Park, South End
Union Park, South End
Curbed lists Union Park in the South End for a scene in which Sacha Pfeiffer, played by Rachel McAdams, talks with a survivor.
A small oval garden between two rows of houses. Keep to the park and the pavement; the houses around it are private.
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The sign at the south-west corner of the Boston College High School campus, Dorchester, November 2025. 4300streetcar · CC BY 4.0 150 University Drive West, Dorchester
Boston College High School
Curbed lists a Boston College High School exterior, shown after a scene filmed in Toronto.
An active school campus; seen from the road. There is no public access to the grounds.
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Stay
A room on the square.
A Back Bay hotel beside the library that opens the research.
Fairmont Hotels
Fairmont Copley Plaza
Copley Square, Boston
A hotel in Back Bay whose page says some rooms overlook the Boston Public Library. Pictured: the library, 2006.
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Ballpark and library visits, and film-location tours of Boston.
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Fenway Park tours
Fenway-Kenmore, Boston
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Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.
6 of 6 places · 9 of 9 stories
The Boston Globe, Morrissey Boulevard
135 Morrissey Boulevard, Dorchester
A weekend at the paper
The cast work in the Globe’s real Dorchester offices over a weekend, with the actors in on the Saturday.
Real presses, real library
Scenes are shot among the Globe’s own printing presses and library.
The newsroom, rebuilt
The newsroom is rebuilt outside Toronto, with 120 cubicles measured from the Globe’s own headquarters.
Fenway Park
4 Jersey Street, Fenway-Kenmore
The ballpark scene
An early scene has the Globe journalists at a Red Sox game.
A Thursday at Fenway
The director shoots a scene at Fenway on the Thursday before the weekend at the Globe.
Boston Public Library, Copley Square
700 Boylston Street, Back Bay
The library steps
Rachel McAdams walks down the steps of the Boston Public Library, and the reporter she plays recognises herself.
Old State House
Congress and State Streets, Downtown
Out of a cab
Mike Rezendes jumps out of a cab by the Old State House.
Union Park, South End
Union Park, South End
A walk in Union Park
Sacha Pfeiffer talks with a survivor in a South End park.
Boston College High School
150 University Drive West, Dorchester
School, cut with Toronto
A Boston school exterior is cut in after a scene filmed in Toronto.