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NU Journalism Professor Launches Innocence Project
CHICAGO (AP) -- A Northwestern University journalism professor whose students are credited with helping to free more than 10 innocent men from prison is taking a leave of absence from the school to launch a non-profit.

David Protess will be on leave for the spring quarter.

Protess was director of Northwestern's Medill Innocence Project, whose students have helped to prove that more than 10 Illinois inmates were wrongfully convicted.

The university announced earlier this month that Protess would no longer teach the investigative journalism class connected to the innocence project.

Protess says he plans to launch the Chicago Innocence Project, a non-profit that will draw students from Chicago-area universities, not just Northwestern.

Northwestern says Protess will have no faculty responsibilities during his leave. Another professor will replace him at the Medill Innocence Project.

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03 29 11 by Newsroom
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