Was Anthony Porter guilty all along? Anita Alvarez says she’ll look into it.
Tag: Anthony McKinney
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A Medill student who tried to exonerate him writes about the death of Anthony McKinney
A former Medill student writes about the death of a prisoner he tried to free.
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Anthony McKinney dies in prison
Anthony McKinney, whose innocence petition led to David Protess’s ouster from Medill, dies in prison.
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The age of innocence is over
Did Willie Donald do it? The Medill Innocence Project no longer cares.
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Former Protess student accused of plagiarism
Former Medill Innocence Project student resigns under fire from Politico
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The elusive definition of “journalist”
News used to be dispensed by an identifiable priesthood. Welcome to the reformation.
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Can students be journalists? At Loyola, the answer’s yes. And at Medill?
Will the judge who invoked the Illinois shield law to protect Loyola students do the same for Medill’s?
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David Protess Calls for an “Independent Review”
David Protess calls for “independent review”
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Northwestern Accuses Protess of of Rank Deceptions
Northwestern accuses David Protess of serious deceptions
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“About the Most Airtight Case of Innocence”
How a legal storm capsized a petition to free a man who’s been imprisoned for three decades.
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Alvarez v. Medill
The state’s attorney’s office presented its case Tuesday for getting lots more information out of Medill about the investigation by that school’s Innocence Project into a 1978 murder of a security guard in Harvey. But if getting to the bottom of the long-past murder is what’s uppermost in the office’s mind, that’s hard to make […]