Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 142 Document Number: D06349
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Two forms/score sheets for use by judges in evaluating entries for this categories: features, promotional story, news story, technical writing, newsletters, low-budget newsletters, magazines, employee publications,annual reports and newspapers. 2 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D11984
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Weekly Edition
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20 Pgs., Named essential workers, the country’s small farmers, ranchers and farmworkers are coping with the pandemic without a corporate safety net, persevering through shutdowns, slowdowns and supply-chain meltdowns.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 124 Document Number: D11226
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Via online Better News. 7 pages., Describes how the Sacramento Bee newspaper experimented with serving specific audiences for food stories in an effort to grow digital subscriptions. "The sprint terminology is borrowed from developers. We liked it because it allowed us to learn and get results quickly. If we failed, that was fine. If we found success, we kept going." Sprint efforts run from six to eight weeks. A drafted plan includes the strategy and tactics used to achieve SMART goals (SMART standing for specific, measurable, aggressive yet achievable, relevant and time-bound.) Team members measure "obsessively," meeting every week to discuss results and build new story plans. In a reported sprint example, digital subscriptions increased by more than 50 percent in 2018.
USA: Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08958
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Page 17 in Lucinda Crile, Findings from studies of bulletins, news stories, and circular letters. Extension Service Circular 488. Revision of Extension Service Circular 461, which it supersedes. May 1953. 24 pages. Summary of bachelor's thesis, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. 3 pages. No date.
