Kevin Cullen

Kevin Cullen (born May 1, 1959) is an American journalist and author. Cullen currently works for the Boston Globe. He was a member of the 2003 investigative team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Catholic Church's sexual abuse scandal. Cullen is co-author of the New York Times best-seller Whitey Bulger: America's Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice.

Cullen was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He grew up in Malden, Massachusetts where he attended Malden High School. In 1981, Cullen graduated summa cum laude from UMass Amherst with a dual degree in Journalism and Political Science and attended Trinity College in Ireland during his junior year. During his senior year, Cullen worked as a stringer for wire services such as the Associated Press.

After graduating UMass, Culen got a job at the Holyoke Transcript-Telegram. From there, he took a job at the Boston Herald, and then moved from there to the Boston Globe where he has remained.

Cullen began reporting on Bulger soon after joining the Boston Globe in 1985. In 1988, he was part of the Globe's investigative "Spotlight" team that exposed Bulger as an FBI informant. Recently, he co-authored a book along with fellow journalist Shelley Murphy titled Whitey Bulger: America's Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice.

In 1997, he was appointed as the Globe's Dublin bureau chief, covering the Northern Ireland peace process, the only American journalist who did so. After a year in Dublin, Ireland, he moved to London to serve as the paper's chief European correspondent, covering the Yugoslav Wars. He reported from more than 20 countries across Europe.

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