[3] Her father, Roger D. Colloff, was vice president and general manager of WCBS-TV in New York City.
[5] Because Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, did not offer a journalism degree, Colloff majored in English literature.
[6] While at Brown, Colloff completed several independent studies in which she focused on long-form journalism.
[8] In 1997, Colloff began working for Texas Monthly as a staff writer, and later as an executive editor.
Colloff noticed discrepancies between the prosecutor's version of events and those presented by the police reports and testimonies in court.
One month after Colloff published "Innocence Lost," the Burleson County district attorney's office dropped all charges against Graves and released him from jail.
[5] In "96 Minutes"[15] Colloff collected dozens of quotations from survivors and witnesses of the August 1, 1966, shootings at the University of Texas at Austin.
"[17] The award, which was presented by the Sidney Hillman Foundation, was for Colloff's accuracy of reporting a severe injustice.
[12] She was awarded this honor in 2014 for her "tenacious investigations into wrongful convictions, which have exposed deep flaws in the criminal justice system.