CBA Record July-August 2018

for the nascent industry, a host city to early silent film studio Essanay, and as a pioneer in the new media technologies of the day. Clarence Darrow (Part II) In 1925, the same year as the Leopold & Loeb trial, Clarence Darrow again took up the role of defense attorney in a notorious case–the Scopes “Monkey Trial.” Newspa- per reporters from across the United States flocked to the Criminal Court of Tennessee in Dayton during the trial of high school science teacher John T. Scopes, accused of teaching evolution. But one enterprising WGN reporter from Chicago saw oppor- tunity. He was the first radio correspondent to broadcast live reports of “breaking news.” For the first time, radio listeners heard news straight from the scene. This “forever changed the way we perceive events,” Conn said–as he pulled from his briefcase the original WGN microphone used to give Chicagoans groundbreaking broadcast updates from the Tennessee courthouse. Although the luncheon celebrated the Kogan Award winners and the comple- mentary roles of the press and the law in safeguarding democracy, Conn had a few cautionary remarks. Lawyers and journal- ists need to “take the responsibility to be right and true,” and that the rise of the notion of “fake news [is] so dangerous to democracy.” In concluding the event, he urged, “We must strive…[so] that truth, justice and honor will win out in the end.”

KOGAN AWARD RECIPIENTS Print Features or Series: Frank Main, Dan Mihalopoulos and Mick Dumke, Chicago Sun-Times, “The Third Border,”which explored the complex and often surprising world that immigrants must navigate on their way to citizenship. Meritorious Award: Todd Lighty, David Heinzmann, Jason Grotto and Robert Goetz, Chicago Tribune, “Cook County’s Failed Bond Court,”described as a“revolving door for defendants who pose the greatest threat to public safety.” Print Legal Beat: Mick Dumke, Chicago Sun-Times, “Guilt by Association,” a Sun-Times Watchdog Special Report that contributed to the passing of a new law in Illinois that now protects parolees from being arrested solely for being seen with alleged gang members–“a fix to one of the worst abuses of criminal law in our state.” Meritorious Award: Professor Timothy P. O’Neill, The John Marshall Law School,“Posner’s New Book Gives Us All Pause to Think About Fellow Humans,”which emphasized the importance of empathy in the practice of law. Online: David Thomas and Jennifer Jenkins, Chicago Lawyer Magazine, “Stung: A Chicago Lawyer Report,”a nine-month investigation that looked into the Chicago Police Department’s use of stingrays, high-end surveillance equipment designed for the U.S. military, but used to surveille suspects’ cell- phones in low-end criminal investigations. Meritorious Award: Brett Chase andMadison Hopkins, Better Government Association, “Power Struggle,” featuring an investigation of governmental regulation in the nuclear power industry and blurred lines between the federal agency overseeing nuclear power and the companies they regulate. Diana Novak Jones, Ed Beeson, Jeremy Barker and Jocelyn Allison, LAW 360,“PaydayWars: Can‘Professional Objectors’Be Stopped?”This six-month investigative report focused on the use of “serial objectors”in class action-heavy Chicago courts. Broadcast: Mark Suppelsa, Marsha Bartel and Kevin Doellmann,WGN-TV,“FromGitmo to Gold Coast: Questions About an Interrogator’s Role,”which examined the story of amanwho claims hewas framed and wrongfully convicted in a decades-old murder on Chicago’s Gold Coast, and the Chicago police detective at the heart of the investigation . Meritorious Award: Larry Yellen, MikeWojcik and Sean Gib- bons,WFLD-TV,“Pinstripe Patronage in the State’s Attorney’s Office,”which revealed that the supervisor of the State’s Attorney’s Civil Action Bureau had steered nearly a half-million dollars in legal work to the law firm where he previously worked.

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