A NC Look at Embedded Journalism

CHAPEL HILL — Journalists and military experts featured at a recent seminar examining news coverage during the Iraq War questioned the effectiveness and importance of embedded journalism. Guest speakers at the seminar, sponsored Sept. 12-13 by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications, included reporters fresh from the Iraqi desert, military leaders, and journalism professors. Much of the seminar focused on a critique of war coverage from Vietnam to the first Gulf War to the Iraq War.