Luncheon hosted Journalist Mike Boettcher

Students met today in Gaylord for a luncheon that hosted a former CNN reporter who taught an IAS/JMC class last semester via teleconference in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Journalist Mike Boettcher embedded himself for ten months with the US Army and lectured in a class titled War in the Media, which was composed of half IAS students and half JMC students.

IAS Professor Zach Messitte co-taught the class with the Dean of Journalism, Joe Foote. Within the next ten years, the university’s curriculum will look very similar to this courses curriculum, Messitte said.

“This was a ground-breaking class, it was one of the first to use technology in a way to bring the entire subject home,” Messitte said.

Boetcher, who arrived back in the US last week said, “It’s pretty bleak in terms of what we need to know about how we are going to deal with these two wars. I feel like I’m swinging against a huge tide.”