The Medill Justice Project wins three Lisagor Awards

 

 

The Chicago Headline Club, the largest chapter of the national Society of Professional Journalists, awarded The Medill Justice Project three Peter Lisagor Awards for Exemplary Journalism. The Medill Justice Project won in "Best All Media: Best Investigative Reporting" for our reporting on potentially wrongful convictions and "Best All Media: Best Deadline Reporting" for our breaking news coverage of Jennifer Del Prete's release from prison. The Medill Justice Project was honored over the Chicago Tribune and The Center for Public Integrity in those two categories. The "Best All Media" categories include entries from daily and non-daily print publications, specialty and trade publications and broadcast television and radio outlets. The Medill Justice Project also won in "Online: Best Feature Story or Series" for our reporting on potentially wrongful convictions and was a finalist in "Online: Best Use of News Video" and "Online: Best Non-Deadline Reporting Online." It was our third consecutive year receiving a Lisagor Award, and it was our fourth consecutive year being named a finalist. It was also the most Lisagor Awards we have won in a single year. Peter Lisagor was The Chicago Daily News' Washington bureau chief from 1959 to 1976. The Chicago Headline Club established the Lisagor Awards in 1977 to inspire Chicago-area journalists to follow his example and to recognize superior contributions to journalism. These awards come at the heels of The Medill Justice Project winning a national Sigma Delta Chi Award and two regional Mark of Excellence Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists. 

 

 


Thank you again for all of your continued support. 

All the best, 

 
Prof. Alec Klein
Director of The Medill Justice Project
MEDILL | Northwestern University

The Medill Justice Project   
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The Medill Justice Project, founded at Northwestern University in 1999, is an investigative journalism enterprise that examines potentially wrongful convictions, probes national systemic criminal-justice issues and conducts groundbreaking research. 
As journalists, we advocate only for the truth.