PHOTOS + TEXT BY JAMES SPRANKLE FOR THE MEDILL NSJI KYIV, UKRAINE — For the last three months, I have been living in Ukraine and covering the war in Donbass as a photojournalist. I arrived in Kyiv on December 10. … Continue reading
TSA gun confiscations up 21% so far this year By SB Anderson CHICAGO — The number of handguns confiscated at the nation’s airport security checkpoints was up 21% through May 1 compared to a year ago — and 45% compared … Continue reading
Panel member discusses report to White House on NSA data collection By Ellen Shearer WASHINGTON – University of Chicago First Amendment scholar Geoffrey Stone was not expecting unanimity among the group of five experts called together by President Barack Obama … Continue reading
Announcements josh meyer moderates war reporting talk at University of Chicago institute of politics Didn’t make it out to the event, featuring NBC’s Richard Engel and The New Yorker’s Jon Lee Anderson in conversation with Medill National Security Journalism Initiative Director of Education … Continue reading
Finding and analyzing VA disability claims data Our latest NSZ 101 how-go guide helps get you started in your pursuit of good local, state, regional and national stories that are to be had in data about the enormous backlog of … Continue reading
Learn how to be secure as a journalist in a hostile environment About 1,000 journalists around the world have been killed in the line of duty in the past two decades; the pie chart above shows a breakdown of the … 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.
