The Chronicle: University of Alaska journalism students to embed with US troops in Iraq
July 29th, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Journalism, Training
The US-based Chronicle of Higher Education reports that three undergraduate journalism students and a professor from the University of Alaska are to spend just under a month embedded with US toops in the Diyala province in Iraq.
“They plan to eat, sleep, and travel alongside members of an Alaska-based Army Stryker Brigade Combat Team, while filing daily articles for news organizations and for their student newspaper, The Sun Star.”
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July 29th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
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