News Stories
"College journalists included in proposed amendment to Md. shield law" by Katie Maloney (Student Press Law Center, February 3, 2010)
"Medill justice project gets some media muscle" by Georgia Garvey (The Chicago Tribune, January 12, 2010)
"Prosecutors Try to Turn Tables on Professor Who Frees the Innocent" by Joe Barrett (The Wall Street Journal, November 27, 2009)
"Northwestern students paid witnesses, prosecutors allege" by Georgia Garvey (The Chicago Tribune, November 11, 2009)
"Ill. prosecutors seek journalism students' grades" by Karen Hawkins (The Associated Press, November 8, 2009)
"Students who question murder convictions under investigation" by Nicole Lapin (CNN, November 6, 2009)
"Prosecutors Turn Tables on Student Journalists" by Monica Davey (The New York Times, October 24, 2009)
"Medill-McKinney Case: Are Student Journalists Protected?" by Dan Fletcher (Time Magazine, October 22, 2009)
"Prosecutor defends subpoena of journalism students' notes" by Doug Stanglin (USA Today, October 20, 2009)
"Northwestern Student Grades Subpoenaed by State for Anthony McKinney Murder Investigation" by Emily Friedman (ABC News, October 20, 2009)
"Northwestern University's Medill Innocence Project is in a standoff with Cook County Prosecutors" by Jeff Long (The Chicago Tribune, October 19, 2009)
"Lawyers: Inmate of 27 years not guilty" (United Press International, November 20, 2008)
"A Mohammed Ali fight and a Wrongful Conviction" (The Innocence Project, November 20, 2008)
"A Mohammed Ali fight and a Wrongful Conviction" (The Bournemouth Innocence Project (UK), November 20, 2008)
"Muhammed Ali bout could clear man of murder" by Maurice Possley (The Chicago Sun-Times, November 20, 2008)
Editorials and Opinions
"Taking Aim at Student Muckrakers" by David Carr (The New York Times, November 15, 2009)
"Gestapo Knocks at Door of Northwestern University Journalism School" by Judge H. Lee Sarokin (The Huffington Post, October 25, 2009)
"Cook County Prosecutor Continues to Investigate Students for Trying to Free an Innocent Man" by Judge H. Lee Sarokin (The Huffington Post, November 12, 2009)
"Justice and Truth Take a Back Seat in Chicago" by Leonard Pitts (The Chicago Tribune, November 4, 2009). Also published as "Injustice compounded in McKinney case" (The Miami Herald, November 4, 2009)
"Alvarez wrongly takes on student journalists" (The Chicago Sun-Times, November 13, 2009)
"Alvarez's overkill" (The Chicago Tribune, October 21, 2009)
"Alvarez should speed justice for McKinney" (The Chicago Sun-Times, November 21, 2008)
"Quash the Press" (The Washington Post, November 1, 2009)
"Media Criticism, Chicago-style" by Glenn Harland Reynolds (The Wall Street Journal, November 4, 2009)
"Stalling Justice" (The Nation magazine, November 4, 2009)
"Students who question murder convictions under investigation" by Nicole Lapin (CNN, November 6, 2009)
"ASNE President Protests Subpoena of Medill Student Records" by Joe Strupp (Editor & Publisher, November 2, 2009) [While this piece is no longer available to non-subscribers, a copy of the ASNE letter to the Cook County State's Attorney can view viewed here.]
"Illinois prosecutor bullies students, backslides to bad old days" (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 18, 2009)
"Shameful and Pathetic Tactics by Illinois Prosecutors: Attacking "Innocent" Students" by Darren Hutchinson (Dissenting Justice, October 26, 2009). Also published as "Shameful Illinois prosecutors go after student investigators" (Salon.com, October 26, 2009)
"Chicago Prosecutors' Innocence Project Vendetta" by James Ridgeway (Mother Jones magazine, October 20, 2009)
"Innocence Project on trial" (The Indianapolis Star, November 27, 2009)
"Prosecutors subpoena journalism students' grades" by Mark Tapscott (The Washington Examiner, October 25, 2009)
"Shield laws and Students: Threat to Press Freedom Unacceptable" by Erika Stutzman (The Boulder Daily Camera, October 21, 2009)
"Prosecutor Wants to Know Journalism Students' Grades" by Radley Balko (Reason magazine, October 20, 2009)
"Prosecutors Investigate Innocence Project Students" by James Joyner (Outside the Beltway, October 26, 2009)
"Prosecutors Go After Student-Journalists' Grades After They Question a Conviction" by Erin Geiger Smith (The Business Insider, October 25, 2009)
"Retribution for justice" by Joshua Avelar (The Daily Texan, October 27, 2009)
"Focus on justice, not students" (The Daily Herald, November 4, 2009)
"An innocent man?" (The Las Vegas Sun, November 27, 2009)
(Updated February 4, 2010 5:39 pm CST)