USA: University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D02874
Notes:
230 pages., Documents ready-print services (sometimes known as patent insides)that furnished newspapers printed on one side, or on two or more pages, to subscribing publishers. Estimated in 1912 to reach 60 million readers in the U.S. Author explores what was being written in those newspapers, and by whom.
Hirst, Martin (author) and Patching, Roger (author)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
International: Oxford University Press, New York, New York.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C23673
Notes:
360 pages., Case Study 3, "Rural Press: the farmer's friend," documents influences of advertisers on the editorial content of farm periodicals published by the Rural Press in Australia.
USA: University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 111 Document Number: C10788
Notes:
329 pages., Biography of Burridge D. Butler, owner of Prairie Farmer state farm paper, Radio Station WLS, Chicago, Illinois, and other media organizations in Arizona during his industrious career. Chronicles the history of these two major mass media organizations which he came to control early in the 1900s.
Australia: Hamlyn Australia, Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25291
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, 338 pages., History of the Weekly Times newspaper at the 125th anniversary of publication (1869-1994). Cited as "Australia's biggest-selling rural weekly newspaper widely recognized as the Bible of the Bush."
