The Bridging the Gap: A Military Experience for Journalists intensive week-long workshop is being held Sept. 26-Oct. 1, 2010, at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. and on the KU campus.

The workshop is hosted by the J-School and the United States Army Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, and sponsored by a grant from the McCormick Foundation.

J-School professors Tom Volek and Barbara Barnett organized the event. Volek accompanied the 10 participating journalists, who were from around the country, at the workshop.

Some of the activities the journalists will participate in include:

• Military 101 overview
• CAC, CGSC and USDB overview
• CGSC student panel and interviews
• Garrison panel
• Embed in staff groups
• Fort Leonard Wood visit
• KU faculty and student panel
• VTC from Afghanistan with BG Gary Patton
• Discussion with LTG Robert Caslen

Journalists participating in the 2010 workshop include:

• Robert Branch, IUPUI Journalism Undergraduate, Indianapolis, Ind.
• Mohamed Gomaa Gebaly, Al-Ahram Newspaper Strategic Paper Editor, Cairo, Egypt
• Bonita Gooch, TCV Publishing, Wichita, Kan.
• Robert Gray, El Paso, Inc. Staff Writer, El Paso, Texas
• Mike Hoffman, Army Times Staff Writer, Springfield, Va.
• J.D. Johannes, TIME Magazine Freelance Correspondent and Producer and Videographer, Topeka, Kan.
• Tim Kennedy, Arab News Contributing Editor, Business Affairs, Washington, D.C.
• Greg Miller, NWMSU Journalism Undergraduate, Maryville, Mo.
• Kelly Stroda, University Daily Kansan Health and Science Reporter, Lawrence, Kan.
• Doug Sudhoff, NWMSU Mass Communication Dept. Chair, Maryville, Mo.