In the second installment of “The Debrief: Guantanamo Edition,” Medill National Security Specialization students who recently returned from a reporting trip to Naval Station Guantanamo Bay discuss the so-called “Tent City” where journalists live during their brief stays on post.
Medill National Security Journalism Specialization students discuss what journalists reporting from Naval Base Guantanamo Bay should back before they leave. Continue reading
Read photojournalist James Sprankle’s guide to reporting on the conflict in Ukraine. Continue reading
BY AARON RINEHART FOR THE MEDILL NSJI “Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it.” … Continue reading
Penetrating the world of nuclear weapons is not as hard for a determined journalist as you might think – or as the government might like you to think. It is secretive but not inscrutable. If you are committed and well-prepared, … Continue reading
Below you can listen to the audio archive of a May 29, 2013 National Security Zone webinar on whistleblowers with Dan Meyer, the Pentagon’s director of whistleblowing and transparency. Medill’s Ellen Shearer hosted the webinar. Listen: [Audio clip: view full … Continue reading
The historic unrest in Egypt has exposed the raw nerve endings of several issues related to U.S. national security and civil liberties, among them, whether Internet access is a fundamental right, not a privilege, and whether shutting down access to it as Egypt did is an assault on free speech in the name of national security. The obvious question: Could that happen here?
From a reporter’s standpoint, what unfolded in Egypt “should prompt journalists around the world to take a closer look at their government’s attitude toward controlling the Internet,” Robert Niles wrote on ORJ.org today (2/4/11). He noted federal legislation “that would allow the government to shut down parts of the Internet in a ‘national emergency.’ ”
That proposed legislation from the last Congress (and reportedly set to be teed up in the new Congress) is shadowed by the spectre of so-called “Internet kill switch” that some believe would give the U.S. government the authority to do what the Mubarek government did: Cut the Internet off at the knees. Continue reading
(Videographer: Sarah Chaco) Kelly Kennedy, who covers health and medical issues for the Military Times papers and is also the author of the recently released book “They Fought for Each Other: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Hardest Hit Unit … 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.
