Afghanistan: U.S. Agency for International Development.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23486
Notes:
USAID Afghanistan: Weekly Reports. 2 pages., Describes the importance of radio in agricultural areas of Afghanistan, with the literacy rate of about 30%. Reports details of a recent agricultural journalism workshop for radio reporters.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22984
Notes:
Pages 64-69 in V.S. Gupta, Rural press: problems and prospects. Press Institute of India, New Delhi. 78 pages., Describes role of the rural press, as well as issues facing it. Urban-based newspapers generally dominate the national scene. "What they file about rural issues, based often on government handouts, gets relegated to inside or insignificant columns."
Parker, Richard (author) and Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1998
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 189 Document Number: D02067
Notes:
Nieman Report. 12 pages., Author emphasizes need and potential of watchdog economic journalism. Suggests shifting from what troubles Americans to inviting them to weigh solutions, their benefits and costs. Refers to the "lost narrative thread in the 1990s, including erosion of the direct experience of the rural, agrarian, pre-capitalist economy that undergirds conditions with America today.
