Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 191 Document Number: D02922
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Commentary from the website of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists. 1 page., Participant in the 2012 IFAJ Master Class describes efforts since then to organize journalists in Burundi for collaboration in coverage of agriculture.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 192 Document Number: D03073
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Greg Wells, editor of The Times Journal, Russell Springs, Kentucky, describes his experience at the occasion of reports of scandalous behavior by Miss USA Tara Conner, a hometown resident. Via the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, Unviersity of Kentucky, Lexington. 3 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 192 Document Number: D03137
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Online report from Organic Consumers Association, Finland, Minnesota. 4 pages., Reviews a report by PR Watch about an interest group that opposes the organic movement.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D05753
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Online via Drovers CattleNetwork, Lenexa,Kansas. 3 pages., Comments about a strange story in New York Times newspaper from an experience in 1876 involving meat falling mysteriously from the sky in Olympia Springs, Kentucky. Speculation about causes.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 139 Document Number: D05812
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Website of the Association of Communication Excellence (ACE)for members of the Academic Special Interest Group. 3 pages., Summary of experiences and advice based on a field study tour to Washington,D.C., involving students from two universities and featuring agricultural communications.
In letter to the editor, Lancet is criticized by a representative of the Biotechnology Industry Organization for placing politics and tabloid sensationalism above its responsibility to report and assess new science.
Letter to the editor regarding publication of research by Stanley Ewen and Arpad Pusztai regarding effects of genetically modified potatoes on rat small intestines.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 139 Document Number: D05923
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Online via www.wired.com. 8 pages., Controversial proposal from John Deere to the Copyright Office suggesting that due to computer codes in modern farm tractors farmers receive "an implied license for the life of the vehicle to operate the vehicle."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 140 Document Number: D06122
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Pages 66-71 in "Ethics, efficiency and food security: feeding the 9 billion well," The Crawford Fund 2014 Annual Parliamentary Conference, Canberra, ACT, Australia, August 24-28, 2014. 157 pages.
"The current situation in the EU can be summarized by the paradoxical conclusion that GMO is safe to eat, but only when produced outside the Member States."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: D06515
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6 pages., Responses to questions for an oral history project sponsored by the Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences (ACE).
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: D06516
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2 pages., Response to question about the relationship between "science communication" and "agricultural communication(s)" Examination of commonalities and defining differences. Suggestion about opportunity for increased collaboration.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 145 Document Number: D06588
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Unpublished notes of responses during an interview/video session with Fawn Kurtzo, graduate student at the University of Arkansas, July 14, 2015. 4 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: D06617
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1 page., Author's perspectives about the role of the agricultural communications faculty member, especially in connection with agriculture. Describes tendency to serve as an honest broker, neutral convener, information provider, question raiser, joint problem solver and sometimes conscience. Expresses advocacy for the mission of agriculture in service to humankind, but not as advocate or apologist for the structures, functions and actions within agriculture - or as blanket adversary or critic.
Case study involving public relations practitioners who disguised the provenance of documents they had created or commissioned involving the "Wal-Marting Across America" information campaign.
USA: Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences (ACE)
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: D06646
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Commentary in the "ACE Retiree Update" newsletter. 4 pages., Features life, career and contributions of C. R. Elder, former Extension Editor and Iowa State College Director of Information.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: D06700
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Online via Adaptive Path, San Francisco, California. 3 pages., Blog review of a paper presented by Eric Gilbert and colleagues at CHI 2008. (See Document No. D06699) about rural and urban uses of social media. Author comments on evidence of "how people in rural areas say they want to reach beyond their communities, but in practice, they don't."
