Medill student Meghan Tribe is spending her fifth-quarter Medill Global Residency in Cambodia’s capital of Phnom Penh.
She is reporting for English-language “The Cambodia Daily.”
Her work has focused on human rights and safety issues, including a look at how cheap helmets make the country’s safety rules futile. In a recent story, she also looked at the fate of a center serving the capital’s homeless and mentally ill populations.
Medill/GlobalPost investigation sheds new light on $3.2 billion U.S. mine clearance and victim assistance effort.
Medill/USA TODAY investigation of U.S. international food aid programs finds significant, entrenched problems
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→ Continue to the story.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.
