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Short Timers: February 2010
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Embedded student journalists and a professor report from Iraq's Diyala province: Meet Brian. Tuesday, February 16, 2010. UAF Journalism Embeds: Free public lecture. This coming Friday, Feb. 19, Jenny, Jessica, Tom and I will discuss our experiences reporting on the brigade last summer. Pictures never seen. Stories that didn't make the printed page. Bring your questions. Nothing is off limits. That's 7 pm at Schaible Hall, which is located in UAF's Bunnell Building. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Short Timers: April 2010
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Embedded student journalists and a professor report from Iraq's Diyala province: Meet Brian. Tuesday, April 13, 2010. Our Iraq project receives cover-story treatment in the spring issue of Aurora. UAF's alumni magazine. The package includes an overview I put together describing how we got there, what happened and lessons the students took away from the experience. It also features one of Tom's best pieces, " Saying Goodbye. Aurora's designers gave us a beautiful spread. We owe them. Big time.
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Short Timers: In the works
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Embedded student journalists and a professor report from Iraq's Diyala province: Meet Brian. Wednesday, November 11, 2009. Snow is on the ground here in Fairbanks. The brigade's command officially changed hands earlier this week. Col. Burt Thompson and many others are soon jetting off to new assignments. Our Iraq adventures, from accompanying soldiers on sweat-streaming patrols in Diyala. To the odd serenity we glimpsed exiting through VIP quarters near Aw Faw. For the audio stream. In October, Ryerson.
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Short Timers: Homecoming
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Embedded student journalists and a professor report from Iraq's Diyala province: Meet Brian. Sunday, August 30, 2009. The team arrived home safely last night on Northwest Flight 405. We were met by our loved ones at the airport. Even UAF Chancellor Brian Rogers and his wife Sherry Modrow showed up to welcome us back, which was really nice of the two of them. Jenny rushed to catch a flight back to Anchorage - after all of our traveling, she still had one leg to go. For those curious what will happen to th...
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Short Timers: Personal Delivery
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Embedded student journalists and a professor report from Iraq's Diyala province: Meet Brian. Thursday, January 7, 2010. Just before Christmas Capt. Chris Hassan, a platoon leader with the 3-21st Infantry, went above and beyond reasonable expectations in completing what amounts to a final Iraq mission. Jessica Hoffman and I traveled in Strykers under Hassan's command on a mission at FOB Normandy. The photo shows the captain briefing soldiers. Chance.This would have happened in Monday's CLP run from No...
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Short Timers: Strykers teach final lessons
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Embedded student journalists and a professor report from Iraq's Diyala province: Meet Brian. Tuesday, September 1, 2009. Strykers teach final lessons. BAQUBAH, Iraq — Shortly after entering the police station, Staff Sgt. Daniel Blalock of the 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment found himself in the embrace of an Iraqi officer. 8220;I knew it was going to be a sad day when we told them we couldn’t come back,” Blalock said, after he returned the hug. Read more in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. I recently...
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Short Timers: Embed News Partners
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Embedded student journalists and a professor report from Iraq's Diyala province: Meet Brian. Our daily news feed during the embed, featuring stories, blogs, photos, video and, occasionally, audio, found wide circulation. Several news organizations, notably the Anchorage Daily News, created online pages dedicated to UAF's Shorttimers project. Others published select stories and presented them alongside other military and international news. These links remain active:. To the team's blog posts. Fairbanks-D...
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Short Timers: November 2009
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Embedded student journalists and a professor report from Iraq's Diyala province: Meet Brian. Wednesday, November 11, 2009. Snow is on the ground here in Fairbanks. The brigade's command officially changed hands earlier this week. Col. Burt Thompson and many others are soon jetting off to new assignments. Our Iraq adventures, from accompanying soldiers on sweat-streaming patrols in Diyala. To the odd serenity we glimpsed exiting through VIP quarters near Aw Faw. For the audio stream. In October, Ryerson.
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Short Timers: Deputy Dogs
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Embedded student journalists and a professor report from Iraq's Diyala province: Meet Brian. Friday, August 28, 2009. Americans are familiar with working dogs. However, for the Iraqi police this is something new. Soldiers from the 1st Stryker Brigade Canine Unit are helping Iraqi Security Forces train dogs to sniff out trouble. August 31, 2009 at 8:32 AM. January 26, 2010 at 11:27 PM. There was this guy who believed very much in true love and decided to take his time to wait for his right girl to appear.