wrongfully convicted, Young convinced the New York County District Attorney's Office to reopen the case, and Jones was freed from prison in 2009. In December, 2009, Young's series of multimedia stories on the Jones case was highlighted in testimony before the Federal Trade Commission by Karen Dunlap, president of the journalism think tank Poytner Institute. Jones, the son of Count Basie and Duke Ellington jazz drummer Rufus "Speedy" Jones, served 22 years in prison before winning an early release that legal experts attributed to Young's work. Young is currently working on a book chronicling how public demands for “justice,” shoddy police investigations and systemic judicial bias too often rob innocent people of their liberty and deprive crime victims of authentic justice. Awards and honors Young is the recipient of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award Silver Baton, the National Headliner Award for Investigative Reporting, the Clarion Award for Investigative Reporting, and an RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting. She has also received the New York Newspaper Publishers Association's Distinguished Investigative Reporting Award, the New York Associated Press Writing Contest, the New York Associated Press Award for Beat Reporting, the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award for Investigative Reporting, the 2008 Online News Association's Online Journalism Award, and the 2009 Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting Award from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. References Living people American women journalists University of Southern Maine alumni Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni Writers from Maine Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women