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 Tara McKelvey
Coming home from Iraq
(Aug. 24, 2010)Documentary photographer Eugene Richards’ new book, “War Is Personal,” captures the homecoming. Continue reading
Trouble in Yemen
(Aug. 16, 2010)National Security Council and counterterrorism officials have held dozens of meetings about Yemen over the past several months. The meetings have been conducted secretly, with little information about them appearing in the media, until Sunday when The New York Times reporters pulled back the curtain in their page-one story about stealth warfare Continue reading
Aid workers in Afghanistan
(Aug. 16, 2010)The military is supposed to do the dirty work in a troubled nation; afterwards, civilians come in and help rebuild the place. Unfortunately, civilian agencies such as USAID are often under-funded and understaffed, and consequently the civilians rarely show up, as military historians have observed. Continue reading
Winners and losers in Afghanistan
(Aug. 03, 2010)As The Washington Post reports, Gen. David H. Petraeus and other commanders in Afghanistan are planning to allow commanders to have access to large amounts of money from a discretionary fund so that they can support reconstruction projects that should … Continue reading
Fallout from the drone strikes
(Jul. 30, 2010)Obama administration officials are strong supporters of the drone strikes, and the number of attacks on Al Qaeda leaders and militants in Pakistan has increased dramatically over the past year and a half, as a New America Foundation study has … Continue reading
The FBI and counterterrorism
(Jul. 28, 2010)FBI directors decided years ago that they would take a different approach in the fight against terrorists; rather than anticipating a court case during their investigation of suspects, as they had done for decades, the FBI would proceed with the … Continue reading
Reporting in Guantanamo
(Jul. 27, 2010)The Pentagon’s “Media Policy and Ground Rules” pamphlet for reporting on Guantanamo starts off badly and quickly veers into silly. The bad start: Reporters may only fly to Guantanamo to cover the military commissions by using military aircraft, although they … Continue reading
Afghan prisons
(Jul. 22, 2010)Last summer, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, who was at the time the top commander of American forces in Afghanistan, identified one of the biggest problems in Afghanistan: The prison population. “There are more insurgents per square foot in corrections facilities … Continue reading
