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 Ellen Shearer
Obama crackdown on leaks to journalists continues
(Jan. 07, 2011)The Obama administration is once again cracking down on government employees who leak to journalists, this time with an indictment of a former CIA officer accused of giving restricted information to an unnamed journalist who sounds a lot like James Risen of The New York Times.
In a story in the Times Thursday, reporter Charlie Savage says Jeffrey Sterling was accused of providing information about “a clandestine program intended to impede the progress of unnamed countries’ weapons capabilities.” The story continued: Continue reading
Army says Fort Hood shooting pre-trial proceedings open to public
(Sep. 03, 2010)In response to inquiries from a number of media organizations, including the Military Reporters and Editors association, the Army Judge Advocate General’s office says the “pretrial investigation of the charges” will be open to the public.
MRE had requested that all proceedings against Maj. Nidal Hasan be open to the
public. Hasan is accused in the Nov. 5, 2009, shooting at the post in which 13 service men and women were killed.
The MRE letter had asked the there be “public access to the Convening Authority’s docket and all pleadings and motions filed in this matter, as well as the ability to attend all proceedings.” Continue reading
MRE condemns DOD for embed decision
(Aug. 13, 2010)The Military Reporters and Editors association has sent an official letter of criticism to the Defense Department for violating its own rules on embedding reporters – to allow unbiased coverage in the war zone. Continue reading
Media-military relations not improved by Pentagon’s ruling on Hastings embed
(Aug. 04, 2010)Freelance reporter Michael Hastings, whose Rolling Stone profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal ended the former top Afghanistan commander’s military career, has been denied an embed slot to join a military unit in Afghanistan, according to news reports. In a Twitter … Continue reading
A new tool to read terrorists' minds?
(Aug. 04, 2010)There’s been lots written about how to protect the country against the next terrorist attack. I just learned that one of my Northwestern University colleagues, J. Peter Rosenfeld, has completed research that offers a possible way to use technology to … Continue reading
