Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D09318
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Online from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, New York City, New York. 5 pages., Interview with Beverly Bell on Berta Caceres and indigenous environmental activism. Caceres was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2015 for leading an indigenous campaign that successfully pressured the world's largest dam builder to pull out of the Agua Zarca Dam.
2 pages., Posted online February 12, 2020., Brief news item announces that during December farm broadcaster Orion Samuelson (WGN Radio, Chicago, IL, and "This Week in Agri-Business" television program) marked his 45th year of doing a live year-end TV-radio interview with the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. It was conducted, as traditionally, in the office of the USDA Secretary in Washington, D.C.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D05732
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"Airing on the Side of Agriculture" from the National Association of Farm Broadcasting. 2 pages., Features Orion Samuelson, long-time farm broadcaster with WGN Radio, Chicago, Illinois, and his partnership with Max Armstrong.
Life and career of the third president of NAFB and "one of NAFB's legends who contributed much to farm broadcasting as a network broadcaster." His career also involved service as Chief of Radio and Television for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
