By: Katherine Driessen | Daily Northwestern
More than 500 emails between former head of the Medill Innocence Project, David Protess, and students working with him to free a man convicted of murder are to be released to prosecutors, a Cook County judge ruled Wednesday, according to The Chicago Tribune.
The ruling effectively refutes the defense, posited by Medill's lawyers, that advocacy journalism is protected by Illinois' shield law, which maintains the privacy of a journalist's unpublished work.
Jan Paynter
On the subject of advocacy journalism, Bob Gibson, Executive Director of the UVA Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership, recently said: “Advocacy journalism can be a very valuable thing: people with a cause, people who want to change the world, people who want to take the country in a different direction. And there is more of that. There are more organizations that are doing long-term investigative reporting and generally they do buy into advocacy journalism. There are others that are forming that are taking the traditional tact of pursuing the truth wherever it leads, without a preordained direction, and we tend to trust those, I think, a little bit more because they have a track record—the good ones—of being balanced.” (Gibson appeared on the Charlottesville interview program Politics Matters with host Jan Paynter discussing journalism http://bit.ly/pm-gibson)
Advocacy Journalism
9/9/2011
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