Journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, recipients of the 2017 Foley Medill Medal of Courage, have each gotten a seven-year prison sentence in Myanmar for violating the country’s Official Secrets Act in the course of their investigative reportage on an alleged massacre of Rohingya Muslims there, CNN reported Sept. 3.
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The United Nations Human Rights Council Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has condemned the Islamic Republic of Iran’s arrest and imprisonment of Princeton University graduate student Xiyue Wang as having “no legal basis” and called for his release in an August 2018 opinion.
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Students from the Medill School of Journalism’s Politics and National Security Journalism initiative visited the Obama Foundation July 20 to learn about plans for the new presidential center in Chicago honoring former President Barack Obama.
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Students from the Medill School of Journalism’s Politics and National Security Journalism initiative met July 20 with national political consultant David Axelrod, former chief strategist and senior adviser to President Barack Obama, and learned immediately of his respect for both journalism and politics.
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The James W. Foley Legacy Foundation and the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University today announced the selection of Medill graduate student Juliette Rocheleau as the inaugural Medill Foley Fellow.
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The Military Reporters & Editors association has joined with other press groups in urging U.S. officials to press authorities in Egypt to release from prison an acclaimed Egyptian photojournalist who faces the death penalty for taking pictures. MRE joined two dozen other organizations and individuals in a June 26 statement that pressed Congress and the Trump administration to take all necessary steps to pressure Egypt to immediately and unconditionally release Mahmoud Abou Zeid, who works under the name Shawkan.
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It has been about a year since the deadly back-to-back collisions in the Pacific Ocean involving the destroyers USS Fitzgerald and USS John S. McCain raised troubling questions about how two state-of-the-art U.S. warships could have collided with large merchant vessels in heavily trafficked waters. A special national security project by the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University and USA Today published today, June 25, highlights underlying flaws in readiness, training and leadership that have the Navy racing to correct course to prevent such tragedies from happening again.
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Following the Justice Department’s seizure of a reporter’s phone and email communications without prior notice, The National Press Club, PEN America and more than a dozen other leading organizations representing professional journalists and free speech advocates are demanding an explanation from Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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On May 10, the National War College, which educates senior military and civilian agency leaders for high-level command and policy positions, hosted 15 Medill graduate students for the day. After a morning discussion of civil-military relations, the students conducted a war game – a simulation of how journalists and officials at the Pentagon, White House and State Department would deal with a hypothetical crisis in the South China Sea involving China, Japan and Vietnam.
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The Military Reporters & Editors association, the preeminent organization for U.S. media professionals specializing in national security, announced the winners of its annual defense journalism award competition. The contest covered work produced in 2017 in several categories.
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