Tim McNulty
Co-director
timothy-mcnulty@northwestern.edu
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
josh@northwestern.edu
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
shearer@northwestern.edu
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
scott-anderson@northwestern.edu
Scott B. Anderson is a Medill Assistant Professor specializing in interactive publishing. He also leads interactive strategy for the National Security Journalism Initiative, including overseeing, producing and reporting for NationalSecurityZone.org and its sibling interactive products, including On the National Security Beat.
Prior to Medill, Anderson was the long-time head of editorial at Chicago-based Tribune Interactive, the umbrella organization for Tribune Company’s award-winning national network of newspaper and broadcast station websites. Previously in his 27 years at Tribune Company, 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, Online News Association and Investigative Reporters and Editors.
More information at about.me/sbanderson.
Fellows
Sharon Weinberger
Carnegie Fellow
sharonweinberger@gmail.com
Sharon Weinberger recently concluded a term as a Carnegie Fellow at Medill School, Northwestern University. She was previously an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow and a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. She is the co-author of A Nuclear Family Vacation: Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry (Bloomsbury, 2008) and the author of Imaginary Weapons: A Journey Through the Pentagon’s Scientific Underworld (Nations Books, 2006). Her writing on military science and technology has appeared in Nature, Discover, Slate, Wired, the Washington Post Magazine, and the Financial Times.
She received her B.A. from Johns Hopkins University, and holds an M.A. from the University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and an M.A. in Russian and East European Studies from Yale University.
Staff
Molly Nevola
Administrative Assistant
m-nevola@northwestern.edu
Molly Nevola is a freelance journalist who joined the NSJI in May 2011. Originally from Providence, RI, Molly attended Wake Forest University and moved to Washington with an opportunity to work in politics during the 2008 election season. With a penchant for writing and reporting, she immediately moved into the world of Beltway journalism. She had a brief stint as a print reporter for various local newspapers before freelancing for Fox News Channel’s bureau in DC. Molly lived and studied four months in Venice, Italy and has traveled to Moscow for international service.
Josh Meyer, left, co-author of 
