Investigative Reporter joins Medill Security Initiative

Josh Meyer, the first investigative reporter to establish a multi-disciplinary terrorism beat for a major U.S. media outlet at The Los Angeles Times’ National Desk, is the new director of education and outreach for the Medill National Security Journalism Initiative, a program intended to improve education and training in national security reporting and research. Meyer will help build the country’s first journalism initiative centered on national and homeland security and civil liberties, teaching classes in Medill’s Washington Program. The $1.5 million, three-year initiative, funded by the McCormick Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation, provides “journalists with the knowledge and skills necessary to report accurately, reliably, completely and with context on events, developments and issues related to defense, security and civil liberties.” Meyer joins initiative co-directors Ellen Shearer, William F. Thomas professor and director of Medill's Washington program, and lecturer Timothy McNulty, former public editor and foreign editor of The Chicago Tribune.