Faculty and staff – national security zone

With increased funding during the last six years, the National Security Journalism Initiative addressed those complexities by adding more classes for students as well as providing learning opportunities and resources for working journalists. Just as conflict will remain with us for the foreseeable future, new national security issues will confront the U.

With continued generous support from the McCormick Foundation, Medill is focusing even more attention on educating the next generation of national security reporters. The emphasis began two years ago with the creation of a National Security Journalism track, including new classes in homeland security and Pentagon reporting, global security issues and collaborative investigative projects with major media partners through our successful annual National Security Reporting Project.

Experiences such as briefings at the National War College and participating in Hostile Environment Training exercises are just the beginning of what attracts students. Legacy of Unexploded Remnants of War. They have also explored topics by reporting from places as far afield as Kurdistan and the Artic Circle, and traveled for stories from U.

Their experiences also include in-depth sessions with journalists at the top of their careers, such as James Risen of The New York Times and David Shipler, author of acclaimed books on civil liberties.

National security education framework

Forty students have graduated from the national security track. We now intend to go even deeper by accepting 15 journalists in the first year and more in the second year into the National Security Journalism Specialization in which most of the courses relate to national security and politics. Meanwhile we will continue to offer classes to other students — about 35 to 40 — who want a less intensive exposure to national security.

The new specialization will train and educate future journalists who want careers reporting as foreign correspondents or working as journalists focusing on military, global or homeland security, intelligence, or defense issues.