Ken Armstrong is a Seattle Times investigative reporter who previously worked at the Chicago Tribune. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2001.

Alan Berlow is a Maryland freelance journalist and former Southeast Asia correspondent for National Public Radio. He is best known for his acclaimed 1996 book Dead Season: A Story of Murder and Revenge published by Cambridge University Press.

Edwin M. Borchard was a professor of law at Yale University Law School from 1917 until his death in 1951. Prior to his appointment at Yale, he was librarian of Congress.

Tom Condon is a columnist and deputy editorial page editor at The Hartford Courant.

Donald S. Connery is a freelance journalist based in Connecticut and member of the Advisory Board of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law. He is a former foreign correspondent who covered civil wars and revolutions in Asia, Africa, and Europe during the 1950s and 1960s for Time and Life magazines. In 1962, he covered the Cuban missile crisis from Moscow for NBC as well as Time.

John Conroy is an independent investigative reporter and radio commentator who formerly was a staff writer for the Chicago Reader.

Fred J. Cook was a prominent investigative reporter in New York from the 1950s until his retirement in the late 1970s. He was perhaps best known for a 1957 report of the Alger Hiss case, to which The Nation devoted an entire issue in 1957. He died in 2003 at age ninety-two.

Jim Dwyer is a staff writer at The New York Times.

Margaret Edds recently accepted a buyout from The Virginian-Pilot, where she had been an editorial writer for many years.

Paul Eddy has been writing about intrigue, corruption, mayhem and murder for more than 25 years, primarily for The Sunday Times of London. He was editor of the Insight Team and has co-authored eight non-fiction books covering a spectrum from war to espionage, terrorism to international drug trafficking. He left The Sunday Times in 1985 but has continued writing investigative for its Sunday magazine.

William T. Farr was the criminal courts reporter for the Los Angeles Times until shortly before his death in 1987, at age fifty-two, after a five-year battle with pancreatic cancer. In his honor, the criminal courts press room was named the Bill Farr Memorial Press Room.

Thomas Frisbie is an award-winning writer and editor at the Chicago Sun-Times, where he has worked since 1976.

Randy Garrett is a mental health technician whose initial writing about Cruz/Hernandez case appeared in Chicago Lawyer.

Gene Gleason was a longtime investigative reporter at the New York World-Telegram and Sun.

John Grisham is an Arkansas-born, Mississippi-educated lawyer/politician-turned-novelist whose books have sold more than 235,000,000 copies worldwide.

John Kendall retired from the Los Angeles Times in 1991.

Alex Kotlowitz is a Chicago writer best known for his 1992 book There Are No Children Here, which the New York Public Library listed as one of the 150 most important books of the Twentieth Century.

Gerald McFarland is a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Steve Mills is an award-winning Chicago Tribune investigative reporter specializing in criminal justice.

Peter Neufeld is an attorney and co-founder of the Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City.

Bob Paynter was until recently projects editor at the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He previously worked at the Akron Beacon Journal, where he led a team of reporters who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for a yearlong exploration of the impact of race on public life.

James R. Phelan was a staff writer for The Saturday Evening Post, best known for his 1976 book Howard Hughes: The Hidden Years. He died of lung cancer in 1997 at age eighty-five.

Maurice Possley was until recently a Chicago Tribune investigative reporter specializing in criminal justice issues. He was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. He currently works for the Northern California Innocence Project.

Dana L. Priest covers the intelligence community and national security issues for the Washington Post and is an analyst for NBC News. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting in 2006 for her reporting on the CIA’s black site prisons. In 2008, the Post received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service based on the work of Priest and two colleagues in exposing mistreatment of wounded veterans at Walter Reed Hospital.

Selwyn Raab is a former New York Times reporter and author of several non-fiction books about criminal justice and organized crime.

Pete Shellem reports on wrongful convictions at The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Mark Sauer was an investigative reporter at the Union-Tribune for 30 years before he left daily journalism in 2007 to pursue a career as a freelance writer/reporter for magazines and television news in San Diego.

Sydney H. Schanberg is a former New York Times foreign correspondent best known for his reporting from Cambodia before the Khmer Rouge took over the country in 1975. His Cambodia coverage won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.

Barry Scheck is co-founder of the Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City.

Brendan Smith is the news editor of Legal Times.

Bryan Smith is a senior editor at Chicago magazine. 


Phil Stanford left The Oregonian in 1994 and currently writes a bi-weekly column for the Portland Tribune.

John Taylor is a contributing editor at New York magazine and a senior writer for Esquire.

Don Terry until recently wrote for the Chicago Tribune Magazine. A former reporter for the New York Times and the Chicago Defender, he currently writes a column for the Chicago Sun-Times.

Alex Tresniowski is a senior writer at People magazine.

Rob Warden is a former investigative reporter and foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News and former editor and publisher of Chicago Lawyer. Since 1999, he has been the executive director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law.

William S. Warden received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Michigan in 2009, and now works in the Teach for America program in Chicago.

John Wilkens is an award-winning Union-Tribune reporter.

April Witt joined the Washington Post in 2000 after working nearly a decade at the Miami Herald.

Christine Ellen Young is an investigative reporter who has worked both for newspapers and television. She has received many awards, including the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton and a Boston-New England Emmy.