…my jaw dropped a bit when I saw this headline in The Chronicle of Higher Education: “U. of Alaska journalism students to embed with combat team in Iraq.”
According to the article, the journalism department at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks will soon have more reporters in Iraq than many major American newspapers, as three undergrads and a professor leave this week for Diyala Province in Iraq — where they will spend almost a month embedded with U.S. troops.