Chasing China’s Tail: The Long Road to Mes Aynak Medill Assistant Prof. and filmmaker Brent Huffman offers a different look at a country that has been at the epicenter of our overseas national security for more than a decade — … Continue reading
Experts: Cybersecurity threat serious and unmanaged By Natalie Jones It’s serious and it’s here. It might be your stolen identity, it might be imposter status updates from your Facebook account, or it might be the shutdown of the electrical grid … Continue reading
Essential Tips and Wisdom, Straight From the Experts Help in preparing for a danger zone and covering a local base Our latest how-to guide: Peter Andrew Bosch, a veteran Miami Herald photographer who has covered conflicts on several continents, offers … Continue reading
Thoughts on key issues related to the domestic use of drones The expanding use of drones over U.S. airspace has become a fast-growing national security topic and privacy concern. We asked our colleague Paul Rosenzweig, who co-authored a recent Heritage … Continue reading
TSA gun confiscations by week We’ve added a new interactive visual of the number of loaded and unloaded guns confiscated each week by the Transportation Security Administration at airport security points. The chart, based on our exclusive database, joins our … Continue reading
Essential Tips and Wisdom, Straight From the Experts Help in covering a local base and using social media on your beat Our latest how-to guide: Hugh Lessig of the Daily Press in Virginia with insights and recommendations on learning how … Continue reading
Josh Meyer of the Medill National Security Journalism Initiative appears on CNN Sept. 4 to discuss what should happen to the SEAL Team 6 operator who wrote the book No Easy Day about killing Osama bin Laden. Watch the interview. … Continue reading
Essential Tips and Wisdom, Straight From the Experts Help in Using social media on your beat and unearthing and analyzing Pentagon data Our latest how-to guide: Doug Haddix, a veteran journalist and now director of the Kiplinger Program in Public … Continue reading
Our newest how-to guide: Part II of using Excel to analyze national security data We’ve posted the second part of our guide to using Excel to analyze national security data. In this segment, Brendan McGarry of Bloomberg News dives into filters, … Continue reading
student reporting on NATO AND G8 published in europe and u.s. Medill graduate students explored the issues — and impact — of the NATO summit in Chicago and G8 meeting at Camp David, from the protests to the economy and … Continue reading
Medill/GlobalPost investigation sheds new light on $3.2 billion U.S. mine clearance and victim assistance effort.
Medill/USA TODAY investigation of U.S. international food aid programs finds significant, entrenched problems
Read about the project.
→ Continue to the story.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.
