At the request of the Medill National Security Journalism Initiative, journalism graduate students at Northwestern University’s Medill School spent 10 weeks this summer exploring how to best connect consumers with important online content in new and innovative ways.
The team presented its findings and unveiled its products, business plan and research to the Medill community and interested business leaders on Aug. 24 in Evanston. (For a video archive of the August, 2011 presentation, please visit this page. )
In what it dubbed The Privacy Project, the 17-student team focused on digital privacy and how it affects, in often little-noticed or overlooked ways, the rights of online consumers. → Read full story.