Jail, Journalism and Juiced-Up Athletes

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Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, the two San Francisco Chronicle investigative sportswriters who are facing jail time for their legal entanglement with the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO) steroid scandal, packed the McCormick Tribune Center Forum on January 19. The discussion, part of the Crain lecture series, was moderated by Assistant Professor Craig LaMay.

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What's the Government Got on You? Play the News21 Game

When Laura McGann came to Medill two years ago for graduate school she had no idea that it would lead her to the cutting edge of investigative journalism.

"In the Fall of 2005 I saw an application for something called News21- an investigative project on homeland security using new media." McGann recalls. "I thought I'd be digging through documents and reporting a story. I had no idea how big the story could be, or how interactive either."

Since January, 2006, Medill's 10 News21 fellows have studied how the federal government's anti-terrorism programs have affected American citizens and their Constitutional rights and protections. The group used Freedom of Information Act requests, surveys of public documents, interviews with government officials and computer-assisted database analysis during a nine-month investigative reporting project.

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