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Pastimes : Murder Mystery: Who Killed Yale Student Suzanne Jovin? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (1083)	4/29/2002 9:48:06 PM
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Re: 4/15-22/02 - AP: Hartford Courant wins new award for fairness in news coverage Hartford Courant wins new award for fairness in news coverage CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Reporting on a college instructor portrayed as a murder suspect won The Hartford Courant a new award that encourages fairness in news coverage by daily newspapers. The Courant's Les Gura won the first Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers, a $10,000 prize endowed by the family that published The Boston Globe from 1872 to 1999. Gura examined media coverage and community reaction to stories that cast Yale instructor James Van de Velde as a suspect in the 1998 killing of Yale senior Suzanne Jovin. Van de Velde was never arrested or charged, and police never produced evidence linking him to the crime. Yale canceled Van de Velde's classes and did not renew his teaching contract. Gura concluded that media, Yale and law enforcement abandoned fairness in the rush to cover a potential scandal. The judges said his article raised reader awareness "in a way that was fair to the suspect and to the system of justice." Finalists for the award were: The (Baltimore) Sun, for a story explaining the process that resulted in the acquittal of a teen-ager accused of killing a police officer. The Chicago Tribune, for a series examining how police obtained confessions from young African-American men with criminal records. The Times-Picayune of New Orleans, for a series showing many well-connected minority firms benefitted from city affirmative-action programs, while others with greater needs did not. The Taylor award is administered by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, where the winner and finalists will be honored April 25. ap.org