Erica Snow, Reporter
March 15, 2017
Filed under Alumni, Campus, Latest Stories
Northwestern alumnus David Freedman (Medill '81) has pledged $3 million to the Medill School of Journalism to support social justice reporting initiatives, according to a news release published Tuesday.
Freedman’s gift will...
September 1, 2016
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Julie Fishbach, Reporter
November 17, 2015
Filed under Academic, Campus, Faculty
The Medill Justice Project has expanded to Washington, D.C., with a new bureau that opened this quarter.
The investigative reporting project covers potentially wrongful convictions and criminal justice issues. Julie Woon, who...
July 22, 2015
Olivia Exstrum, Campus Editor
February 19, 2015
Filed under Campus, Student Groups
Medill junior Sophia Bollag will be the next editor in chief of The Daily Northwestern, the paper’s publisher announced Wednesday.
Bollag, a current managing editor at The Daily, will succeed Weinberg senior Ciara McCarthy....
Tyler Pager, Breaking News Editor
October 31, 2014
Filed under Academic, Campus, Faculty, Latest Stories
The Cook County state's attorney vacated the double-murder conviction of Alstory Simon on Thursday, raising questions about an investigation assisted by former Medill Prof. David Protess.
Protess led the Medill Innocence...
Tyler Pager, Breaking News Editor
September 25, 2014
Filed under Administration, Campus, Latest Stories
Northwestern will remember McCormick senior Mihirtej Boddupalli in a memorial service on Oct. 16.
Boddupalli was killed in a July drunk driving accident after a car he was riding in crashed into a water-filled quarry. The driv...
July 24, 2014
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Ciara McCarthy, Managing Editor
April 23, 2014
Filed under Campus
Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, the vice president of the Chicago Innocence Project and the man at the center of one of the most famous wrongful conviction cases in the U.S., died Sunday from prostate cancer.
Carter served on ChIP...
