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Reporting uphill: The challenges of covering national security

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Award-winning journalist Tom Gjelten has been covering international and security issues for National Public Radio for years.

He's now NPR's intelligence correspondent, and during a recent speech at Macalester College as part of Minnesota Public Radio's Broadcast Journalist Series, Gjelten discussed the challenges of fact-finding when matters of security are involved.