European officials are taking a closer look at the safety of food supplies. Britain’s infrastructure safety agency released a warning about the growing threat of agroterrorism. A recent E. Coli outbreak in Germany has killed 25 people and sickened more … Continue reading
What is more at stake, our civil liberties or our security? Last year 1,506 federal surveillance applications were submitted and approved. Under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, court warrants grant the government broad authority to secretly monitor the … Continue reading
How much safer do Americans feel now that Osama Bin Laden is dead? Hardly at all, according to a Newsweek and Daily Beast poll of 1,200 adults, conducted in the two days immediately prior to President Obama’s Sunday announcement and … Continue reading
In late January, thousands outside of Chicago’s Cultural Center celebrated as Governor Pat Quinn signed the new Civil Union legislation. Taking effect June 1, 2011, this gave a few months for county registrars and county clerks to prepare for handing … Continue reading
How much money is needed to defend civil rights, to fight bigotry and promote intolerance? Can money save civil liberties? To support civil rights work, Chicago’s Council on American-Islamic Relations raised almost $400,000 in contributions. CAIR’s New York and Chicago … Continue reading
As technology advances, the imagination can run wild with all of the ways information can be gathered electronically. Some of the means by which the public and private sectors obtain information today are things we would’ve only expected in James … Continue reading
New training requirements are set to better-equip airline pilots and crewmembers to prevent fatal errors from occurring in emergency cases. The FAA has revised a proposal to enhance air carrier training programs, replacing the original plan released in January 2009. … Continue reading
Public schools in California seem to be failing the state’s students once again, according to California Watch, an arm of the nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting. This time this criticism isn’t about substandard teaching, freefalling test scores or the achievement … Continue reading
The United States handles immigration better than most other nations, Jacob L. Vigdor writes on the Op-Ed page of the Los Angeles Times. “But,” he adds, “the U.S. could learn a thing or two from Canada.” Canada might be doing … Continue reading
No matter how high your privacy settings are on Facebook, the government might still have access to everything you post. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, based in San Francisco, teamed with the Samuelson Law, Technology and the Public Policy Clinic at … 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.
