[3][4][5] Medill alumni include over 40 Pulitzer Prize laureates,[6] numerous national correspondents for major networks, many well-known reporters, columnists and media executives.

The Knight Lab is a joint initiative of Medill and the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern, one of the first to combine journalism and computer science.

[1] Medill undergraduates participate in a journalism residency for one quarter in their junior or senior year, during which they intern in a professional newsroom or media organization.

Alstory Simon made a video confession to the crimes, encouraged by the Medill Justice Project and a private investigator.

Anita Alvarez, of the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, criticized David Protess, the Innocence Project founder and director, and long-time Medill journalism professor.

Prosecutors said Protess, private investigator Paul Ciolino, and Medill students manipulated Simon into making the confession.

[23] From 2009 to 2011, the project was involved in a dispute with the Cook County, Illinois state's attorney over the handling of the Anthony McKinney case.

In 2011, Protess left to found the Chicago Innocence Project[25] and blog for the Huffington Post[26] while the school gave up the records.

[27][28][29] In February 2018, Medill Justice Project Director Alec Klein was accused of bullying and sexual harassment by multiple former students and employees.

The center focuses on evidence-based, data driven analysis to prove the connection between customer engagement and purchase behavior.

Each quarter, student reporters are assigned to cover stories about city and county government, the events in state and federal courts, business and economic development, health and science issues and the arts and sports.

For Medill MIE students, this campus is the epicenter of their studies related to human-centered design, the business of startups, and learning to code and work within a tech-industry company.

[38] Lavine denied fabricating the quote in a February 20 email to students, but expressed regret for what he called "poor judgment" in not keeping his notes.