When I was a freshman reporter for The Daily Northwestern, a Medill alum by the name of James Foley was detained in Libya while covering the uprising. I was assigned to write about it for The Daily, given...

After more than a year of putting their lives on the line to report in Syria, writers C.J. Chivers and Ben Hubbard were awarded the 2012 Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism on Thursday. Both reporters...