Check out this amazing student-journalism project: students from five universities have picked a single, huge, ambitious subject and are fanning out across America to report on it over a long period, producing CC-licensed, broadcast-quality video and text.
The American military is in the midst of a profound shift in strategy that is reshaping the military’s presence, and in many cases, its mission, around the world. Older, permanent bases are downsizing or being restructured; newer, smaller and more flexible bases, in places new to American troops, are being created. We are looking for ways to tell stories–cultural, economic, political and environmental–about the nearly half million men and women serving the security interests of the United States overseas.
The students have fanned out across the globe for their on-the-ground reporting, which ultimately will be used to produce broadcast-quality journalism. But one way they’re learning to tell this story is through a blog, US Military Abroad, on which you’ll find a good example of group blogging. And (update) don’t miss their Korea blog.
Other project blogs include:* Privacy, Civil Liberties and Homeland Security (Medill School, Northwestern University)
* Immigration Outpost (Annenberg School, University of Southern California)
* Homeland Security Money Trail (Columbia University)
(Thanks, Dan!0