This press release just into the Media Blog’s mailbox:

Michael Yon, the acclaimed independent photo journalist and war correspondent currently embedded in Iraq covering the “surge” has signed an exclusive deal with Peace River Company LLC and Extant Media to produce a verite television series that will film his war zone dispatches from Iraq. This television vehicle, tentatively titled “Michael Yon: Dispatches/Iraq”, will bring a new dimension to Yon’s sometimes brutal blog accounts and vivid images as he covers the life and death struggle of the soldiers and citizens of this war torn country. Yon is one of the only journalists to brave the streets of Baghdad beyond the protected Green Zone and bring unfiltered war accounts to the American public.

In an e-mail accompanying the release, Michael writes that he is hoping the series, “will lead to expanded coverage of the stories of the soldiers which are increasingly hard to come by via traditional sources.” Check out Michael’s website here, and his NRO archive here.