Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: C25699
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Via Messenger Online. 2 pages., Announces the Ezzell family of the Canadian Record newspaper (Canadian, Texas) as winner of the Tom and Pat Gish Award for courage, tenacity and integrity in rural journalism. Award presented by the Institute of Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky, Lexington.
Posted at http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/07-4NRwinter/p53-curley.html, Editor explains how memories of how local newspapers served his family in rural Kansas helped him and his associates create hyperlocal news coverage for the Washington Post newspaper. "The nature of local journalism has not changed significantly in many years."
Brown, Laurie Ezzell (author / Canadian Record, Canadian, Texas)
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
2007-04-20
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: C25753
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Presented in acceptance of the Tom and Pat Gish Award for courage, tenacity and integrity in rural journalism. Presented by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues at the National Summit on Journalism in Rural America, Lexington, Kentucky, April 20, 2007. 3 pages.
Summarizes activities at the first National Summit on Journalism in Rural America, convened by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues.
Via online issue. 2 pages., One of five articles featuring "The challenges of rural journalism" in this special section of the May 2007 issue of Montana Journalism Review. Author identifies five lessons she has learned in covering the rural West.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 161 Document Number: C26308
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From the Des Moines Register via Agri Marketing web site. 2 pages., Reports on the death and career of Don Muhm, long-time agricultural journalist with the Des Moines Register newspaper, Des Moines, Iowa.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: C25603
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Retrieved March 19, 2007, Presented to the Agricultural Communications Section, Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists Annual Meeting, Mobile, Alabama, February 3-6, 2007. 18 pages.
