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
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#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 Zachary Vasile
War in widescreen: How GIs can tell their stories on film
(Jul. 01, 2015)
An increasing number of veterans and service members are turning to film to tell their stories. Continue reading
The West’s forgotten war
(Jun. 09, 2015)Somalia has been considered a failed state since the early 1990s, but he presence of UN and AU peacekeepers in the war-, famine- and poverty-torn country has been largely unable to quell the ongoing violence between various warlords and armed factions. Continue reading
Iraqi Christians forgotten as ISIS threat grows
(Jun. 09, 2015)Beyond a foreign offensive against ISIS, Assyrian groups have renewed calls for an autonomous Christian homeland in Iraq’s Nineveh Governorate, known as Nīnwē to the Assyrians. Continue reading
DEA quotas called into question
(May. 06, 2015)WASHINGTON — The embattled Drug Enforcement Administration came under fire Tuesday as senators dug into the agency’s controlled substances quota program, questioning whether it contributes to shortages of certain medications. A Government Accountability Office report stops short of explicitly linking … Continue reading
Protesters, police square off in Baltimore, but riots averted
(Apr. 30, 2015)BALTIMORE, Md. — Protesters clashed with police on the city’s west side Tuesday night as anger over the death of 25-year-old black man Freddie Gray while in police custody again boiled into violence. Though the unrest stopped well short of … Continue reading
Philly VA pushes back on investigation
(Apr. 22, 2015)WASHINGTON — The Philadelphia branch of the Department of Veterans Affairs has already fixed some of the problems noted by federal inspectors who said the office altered quality reviews, violated claim policies and had stacks of unopened mail, a top … Continue reading
