Staff

Tim McNulty

Co-director, National Security Journalism Initiative
Tim’s National Security blog
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A senior editor and correspondent at the Chicago Tribune for many years, Tim was the newspaper’s public editor until leaving the newspaper in August 2008. Previously, as an associate managing editor, he helped direct the newspaper’s coverage of the September 11 tragedy, the American strike into Afghanistan and the invasion of Iraq.

Tim was among the first eight American journalists allowed to live in Beijing in the late 1970s. Later, as the Middle East correspondent, he worked in Beirut and Jerusalem. Upon returning to the U.S., he reported on social and political policy making in Washington for more than 13 years as national affairs correspondent and as a White House correspondent.

Josh Meyer

Director of Education and Outreach, National Security Journalism Initiative
Josh’s National Security blog
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Josh spent 20 years with the Los Angeles Times before joining Medill’s new initiative in January.

He was an investigative reporter and national security writer, covering a wide range of issues, including government, politics and law enforcement. Since 2000, he focused on terrorism and related intelligence, law enforcement and national security issues while traveling extensively to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Persian Gulf.

Most recently, Josh has written extensively about the Obama Justice Department, global organized crime, WMDs and trafficking in drugs and humans and contributed to the Times’ prize-winning “Mexico Under Siege’’ series on Mexican drug cartels and the government response to them.

During his two decades at the Times he shared two staff Pulitzer Prizes. He also was recognized four times by the Southern California Press Association for his investigative reporting.

He also was one of several L.A. Time reporters to win more than a dozen awards for a 2002 series entitled “Inside Al Qaeda,” including the Overseas Press Club’s Hal Boyle international reporting award.

Ellen Shearer

Co-director, National Security Journalism Initiative
Ellen’s National Security blog
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Ellen is the William F. Thomas Professor in the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and director of the school’s Washington Program, Medill News Service. She led the news service’s investigative projects in 2004 and 2006, which created databases of privately sponsored congressional travel as part of the reporters’ investigative series of stories. In 2008-09, she followed up with the news service’s Pentagon Travel series, in cooperation with the Center for Public Integrity.

Ellen was a leader in the News21 project on privacy and civil liberties post-9/11, which won a special citation from National Press Foundation. She created and directed “Y Vote 2000: Politics of a New Generation,” a project to cover the presidential campaign to engage young adults.

She is the co-author of “Nonvoters: America’s No-Shows” and has written chapters in five media books. Before joining the Medill faculty, she was a senior editor at New York Newsday, a consulting editor at Newhouse News Service, marketing executive at Reuters, and held positions as senior executive, bureau chief and reporter during a 10-year stint at United Press International.

Scott B. Anderson

Interactive Strategy, National Security Journalism Initiative
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Scott B. Anderson is a Medill School of Journalism lecturer specializing in interactive publishing and also leads interactive strategy for the National Security Journalism Initiative.

Prior to Medill, Anderson spent 10 years as the head of editorial at Chicago-based Tribune Interactive (TI), the umbrella organization for Tribune Company’s award-winning national network of newspaper and broadcast station websites. Previously, he was an editor, reporter and founding executive producer for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Anderson is a longtime active member of the American Society of News Editors and Online News Association.

Candice Marks

Administrative Assistant, National Security Journalism Initiative
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Candice Marks is the Administrative Assistant to the National Security Journalism Initiative. She joined NSJI in August of 2010. Candice previously worked for four years with the Law Offices of B. Mayo Robertson as an office coordinator. She has over 15 years’ of progressive administrative experience. In previous years, she held clerical positions with various non-profit organizations, such as the Council on Social Work Education and the American Arbitration Association. Candice has extensive experience in the fields of administration, secretarial and customer service.