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.
Posts by Chris Kirk
Future political candidates, beware: Your online histories are up for grabs
(Mar. 28, 2012)Today’s presidential candidates face a lot of scrutiney, but what will happen when the digital natives who grew up on the Web run for office after amassing decades of digital history? Will opposition researchers sift through the xangas, livejournals and myspaces that those candidates kept in high school? Continue reading
Domestic drone bill upsets civil liberties advocates
(Feb. 10, 2012)WASHINGTON — A leading Civil liberties group is outraged that the Senate passed a measure that would order the federal government to further open U.S. skies to drones. The bill, which provides four more years of funding for the Federal … Continue reading
