NSZ 101 HOW-TO GUIDES
We have an ever-growing collection of “National Security Zone 101s” — topical how-to guides, focusing on myriad national security issues — to help you become a better national security journalist.
- First Time on the Front Line: A Rookie’s Guide to Reporting in Ukraine
- Why you need a fixer and how to find one
- Analyzing Veterans Administration disability backlog data
- Using social media for national security reporting
- Reporting tips from a military insider
- Privacy Primer
- Pentagon contracts
- Covering nuclear weapons
- Guide to National Security Congressional Committees
- Tapping the VA’s vast data warehouse
- Military reporting
- Military medical system
- The base beat: Covering military installations
- Law of War
- Basic primer for journalists on firearms and ammunition
- Excel How-to Part I
- Excel How-to Part II
- Digital security basics for journalists
- Covering the defense budget
- Covering military trials
- Conflict and disaster photography
- What journalists need to prepare for coverage in a combat zone
- Security for hostile environments
- Reporters’ Privilege and Shield Laws
