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 Matt Yurus
Obama’s political approach to heal the Mideast in question
(Jul. 15, 2015)With only 60 moderate Syrian rebels training under U.S. military advisers and a less than expected number of Iraqi soldiers prepared to fight, the Obama administration’s quest to destroy the Islamic State and its allure through political solutions and use of indigenous forces is in question. Continue reading
Matt Yurus at the Navy Yard after reports of gunfire
(Jul. 02, 2015)
Listen to Medill NSJI reporter Matt Yuru’s Rivet Radio call-in from the Navy Yard Lockdown. Continue reading
Marines at Twentynine Palms prepare for the theater of war
(May. 06, 2015)TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — Marines stationed at Southern California’s Twentynine Palms base who are ordered to move to a sleepy little town in the Mojave Desert do so willingly for one overriding reason — the Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Air … Continue reading
