TSA gun confiscations pass 1,500 for 2012; 85% of them loaded Passengers caught trying to carry handguns past security at O’Hare and Panama City airports on Dec. 21 pushed the total number of gun confiscations by Transportation Security Administration screeners … 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
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
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
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
Top of the summits: NATO and G8 Medill graduate students explore the issues — and impact — of the NATO summit in Chicago and G8 meeting at Camp David, from the protests to the economy and military. → Complete package … Continue reading
Guard, Reserve not adequately served by military care system, Medill students find A three-month investigation by a team of Medill student reporters has found significant gaps between the health care and support for the 665,000 National Guardsmen and Reservists who … 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
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→ 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.
