The buoyant mood over the best picture award for “Spotlight’’ Sunday night extended beyond the paper’s Boston offices, said Walter Robinson, the editor known as Robby and played by Michael Keaton in the film. Mr. Robinson said he received messages from colleagues in the business saying their newsrooms “erupted in applause” over the award.

Twitter also lit up with rallying cries in favor of journalism writ large, including exhortations to subscribe “to the print edition of your local newspaper,” “buy an app” or donate to an investigative reporting nonprofit organization.

Mr. Robinson, who led The Globe’s investigative team, said in a phone interview that the award was a “needed shot in the arm for journalism,” and a reminder to the public on “good reporting and the difference it can make in people’s lives — particularly the lives of people who have no one else to speak for them but us.”

The boost comes as financial pressures in the digital age have forced many newspapers to reduce their staffs and cut back on resources, and when public attacks on journalism are an increasingly common ingredient of presidential campaign stump speeches. The Globe has not been exempt from these pressures, eliminating its foreign bureaus and all national bureaus except Washington, said Sacha Pfeiffer, a member of the team who is played by Rachel McAdams.

In the face of these pressures, maintaining subscriber loyalty takes on even more importance. So when The Globe changed delivery services early this year, leading to problems in getting papers to people’s doors, staff members quickly volunteered to add delivery routes to their normal duties.