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.
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From under the sea to inside the Beltway
(Mar. 14, 2012)WASHINGTON — One of the senior members of President George W. Bush’s Department of Homeland Security, Paul Rosenzweig never imagined himself becoming a Beltway insider when he was a student studying life under the sea and hoping to one day become an oceanographer. “I was really interested in science because I was interested in big questions,” he said. In the mid-1980s, Rosenzweig was part of one of the first groups to study the effects of global warming. At the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, he studied the absorption levels of carbon dioxide into ocean water. But just before obtaining his master’s degree, he realized the life of a researcher was not a good fit. Continue reading
An audio visit with Paul Rosenzweig
(Mar. 14, 2012)Audio presentation by Kit Fox and Shirley Li Main story on Paul Rosenszweig
John Kropf on privacy
(Mar. 14, 2012)Former Department of Homeland Security privacy officer John Kropf says DHS efforts to ensure that the data it collects about citizens remains private have expanded in the years since the agency was formed.
In an interview with Medill reporters in Washington, D.C., he reviewed the agency’s work during his time there, but noted that the views expressed are his personal views and not those of the U.S. government or DHS. Continue reading
General sees speed-up in Afghan transition
(Jul. 11, 2011)Gretel C. Kovach attended the 2011 National Security Journalism Conference on covering the military. She filed this story for the San Diego Union-Tribune, where she is a reporter. WASHINGTON, D.C. — The president’s new plan to begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan … Continue reading
