- Analyzing Data on the VA Disability Claims Backlog
- Combat Zone Deployments
- Conflict and disaster photography
- Covering Military Trials
- Defense Budget
- Digital security basics for journalists
- Excel 101 (Part 1)
- Excel 101 (Part 2)
- Firearms Primer for Journalists
- Fixers: Why you need one and how to find one
- How to avoid legal trouble over sources and secrets
- Law of War
- The Local Base Beat
- Military Medical System
- Military Reporting
- Mining VA data
- Navigating Congress
- Covering nuclear weapons
- Pentagon Contracting
- Privacy Primer
- Reporting tips from a military insider
- Reporters’ Privilege and Shield Laws
- Using Social Media for National Security Reporting
- Security for Hostile Environments
Medill National Security Reporting Project
Medill/GlobalPost investigation sheds new light on $3.2 billion U.S. mine clearance and victim assistance effort.
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Medill/USA TODAY investigation of U.S. international food aid programs finds significant, entrenched problems
Read about the project.R.I.P. James Wright Foley, 1973-2014
#MedillRemembers James Foley, One Year Later
Remembering James Foley's life and legacy one year after his death at the hands of the Islamic State.
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Major TV networks sign onto freelancer safety compact
Read about the compact, which was signed by Medill NSJI Co-Director Ellen Shearer at Columbia University in September, here.McCormick Foundation renews grant for Medill National Security Journalism program
EVANSTON, Ill. — The Robert R. McCormick Foundation has renewed a $1 million grant to fund the Medill National Security Journalism Initiative at Northwestern University over the next two years.
The NSJ program provides journalists-in-training and working journalists with the knowledge and skills necessary to report accurately, completely and with context on events and issues related to defense, security and civil liberties. The initiative began in January, 2009 with an initial three-year, $1.3 million McCormick Foundation grant. The grant was also renewed for $1 million over two years in 2011.
