John Flynn Rooney reports on how Medill students tracked down an elusive co-defendant in the Ariel Gomez case who disputes Gomez’s claims of innocence. Read the full story here.
Continue Reading →The Chicago Reader’s Michael Miner reviews the second wave of investigative stories published by the Medill Innocence Project on the Ariel Gomez case. Read the full story here.
Continue Reading →The Reporter’s Committee for Freedom of the Press examines journalism-based innocence projects. Read the full story here.
Continue Reading →Spanish-language TV outlet Univision talks to the Medill Innocence Project about its findings into the case of Ariel Gomez, who is convicted of a 1997 murder he says he did not commit. In December, journalism students supported by the Medill Innocence Project published their case investigation. Watch Univision’s story about their work here.
Continue Reading →Writer Kevin Davis explores the challenges a journalism-based innocence project faces in “Journalism and Justice: Did Innocence Project Student Reporters Get Too Close to Lawyers?” Read the article here.
Continue Reading →Veteran Poynter journalist Jim Romenesko tweeted and posted a link to a story about the Ariel Gomez case on his site, http://jimromenesko.com/
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USA Today reporter Viviana Bonilla Lopez examines how the Medill Innocence Project, among other undergraduate programs, pursues the truth. Read the full article here.
Continue Reading →Commentator Rachel Maddow’s guest, Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, discusses the Medill Innocence Project’s historic impact on death penalty cases in the U.S.
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Professor Alec Klein, director of the Medill Innocence Project, is interviewed alongside others in the Medill and greater Northwestern community about the controversial Troy Davis execution.
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Continue Reading →Writer Cary Spivak features Medill Professor Alec Klein and the new direction of the Medill Innocence Project in the September issue of the American Journalism Review.
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