Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D05737
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"Blog Stories on Extension." Online via the website of AgroInsight, Ghent, Belgium. 2 pages., Example of negative results from a top-down approach to Extension teaching.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D05754
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Online from Rural Reporters. 3 pages., Addresses the role of community-based organizations (CBOs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in strengthening the rural sector of developing countries, with emphasis on Africa.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 139 Document Number: D05910
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Pages 19-37 in Liverman,D.G.E., Pereira, C.P.G. and Marker, B. (eds) Communicating environmental geoscience. Special Publication 305, Geological Society, London, U.K.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 143 Document Number: D06433
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Website of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists. 2 pages., Agricultural journalist describes paralysis of agriculture news in Burundi. Reports having been interrogated by police.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 153 Document Number: D07406
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Online from Free Press, Florence, Massachusetts. 2 pages., Provides links to stories and video case examples of the experiences and circumstances of those who lack access to broadband information services for a variety of reasons.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Folder: 161` Document Number: D07869
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Pages 107-109 in M.J. Navarro (ed.), Voices and views: why biotech?. ISAAA Brief No. 50. International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications, Ithaca, New York. 158 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Folder: 161 Document Number: D07870
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Pages 110-113 in M.J. Navarro (ed.), Voices and views: why biotech? ISAAA Brief No. 50. International Service for the Acquisition ofAgri-biotech Applications, Ithaca, New York. 158 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Folder: 161 Document Number: D07871
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Pages 114-117 in M.J. Navarro (ed.), Voices and views: why biotech? ISAAA Brief No. 50. International Service for the Acquisition ofAgri-biotech Applications, Ithaca, New York. 158 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 161 Document Number: D07872
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Pages 118-121 in M.J. Navarro (ed.), Voices and views: why biotech? ISAAA Brief No. 50. International Service for the Acquisition ofAgri-biotech Applications, Ithaca, New York. 158 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 161 Document Number: D07873
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Pages 122-125 in M.J. Navarro (ed.), Voices and views: why biotech? ISAAA Brief No. 50. International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications, Ithaca, New York. 158 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 161 Document Number: D07874
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Pages 99-102 in M.J. Navarro (ed.), Voices and views: why biotech? ISAAA Brief No. 50. International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications, Ithaca, New York. 158 pages.
Online via cattlenetwork.com. "Best of Drovers - this month's top stories." 2 pages., Involves the defamation settlement Disney paid to Beef Products Inc. for faulty, damaging reporting by ABC-TV involving the BPI product, lean finely textured beef.
USA: Food and Environment Reporting Network (FERN)
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09876
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Via FERN website. 7 pages., Addresses the broad issue of "fake news" through a case example focused on reporting at the "complex intersection of the meatpacking industry, immigration, the rise of fake news, and the changing face of America's heartland." The example focuses on reporting about Somali and other refugees working at a meat packing plant near Garden City, Kansas.
This article is maintained in files of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois > "International" section > "Rockwood newsletter" file., Author's newsletter to fellow editors and communicators associated with international agricultural research centers (IARCs)., Reader and author discuss challenges of preparing annual reports.
USA: Center for Investigative Reporting, Emoryville, California.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10286
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Via online from the "Reveal" section of the Center website. 5 pages., Regional officials of the National Park Service "scrubbed all mentions of climate change from a key planning document for a New England national park after they were warned to avoid "sensitive language that may raise eyebrows."
In an issue located in a chronological file entitled "INTERPAKS - Newsletter" from the International Programs records of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois., From the International Programs records of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign., First-hand experience in a technical assistance program aimed at the transfer of the extension function from an established government base to a new university base, capitalizing on the university's competencies in instruction and capacities in technology development - and experience with the next-best alternative when the optimum could not be realized.
Miller, Alfred (author / Louisville Courier-Journal)
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2019
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 124 Document Number: D11197
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Online from the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. 16 pages., Report of a troubled and costly effort to provide "high-speed internet to Kentucky''s remote corners."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 124 Document Number: D11198
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Online from ProPublica. 3 pages., Report of a response to ProPublica by a poultry company, Case Farms, described by government officials as "outrageously dangerous." Focus is on accuracy of information provided and reported.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 124 Document Number: D11201
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Online via ProPublica website. 2 pages., Examines issues of bogus labels and related issues in the arena of food distribution, marketing, and communications.
International: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, New York City, New York
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 124 Document Number: D11204
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Via online. 12 pages., Article involves a Reuters reporter who has "aimed a torrent of critical reporting at the WHO's [World Health Organization of the United Nations] International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), portraying the group and its scientists as out of touch and unethical, and leveling accursation about conflicts of interest and suppressed information in their decision-making."
Swasy, Alecia (author / Washington and Lee University)
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2016
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 124 Document Number: D11222
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Online from Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, Florida. 3 pages., Observations based on analysis of thousands of articles spanning 50 years from 1964-2014. Findings prompt the author to observe that reporters given the chance to travel to remote areas have done a terrific job of putting a face on the plight of the rural poor."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: D11589
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5 pages., Online via publisher. 5 pages., Author interviewed Al Cross, director of the Institute of Rural Journalism and Community Issues, about the background of the Rural Blog and more generally about changes in the ways national and local journalists cover - or talk about- rural journalism. Other topics involved gaps in national news coverage about rural areas, who is doing rural journalism well, and effects of newspaper ownership changes in the types of stories that rural news outlets cover.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: D11590
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3 pages., Online from publisher website. 2 pages., Report explains that more than $1 billion are "flowing to 126 communities in 38 states and tribal lands to build broadband networks." Author summarizes a Federal Communications Commission resource page explaining why rural broadband is so important.
23 pages., Online via open access., How is bilateral development cooperation communicated about in the news? How does a donor agency communicate for and about development? And what are the links between one and the other? This article focuses on a 2016 expose reported on Swedish public television about alleged corruption in aid to Zambia, reflecting failure of both donor and recipient. Authors focus on the news media as mediator of the donor's communication with its tax-paying audiences and demonstrated potentials of an integrated conceptual approach to communication for and about development. Findings reveal greater media coverage of financial accountability than on doing good for Zambian citizens.
International: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris, France.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: D11692
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2 pages., Online from organization website., In an online event, United Nations leaders and others emphasize importance of free, independent, fact-based journalism at the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, May 3, 2020."I takes journalism to communicate the findings of scientists and disseminate real and reliable information and counter fake news that is dangerous to people's lives and to efforts to contain the spread of the (COVID-19) pandemic."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11702
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9 pages., Online via publisher website., Presentation of these cited megatrends in agriculture includes references to expanded communications challenges involving genetic modification/biotechnology and public scrutiny of livestock treatment.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11817
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Via website of Corporate Crime Reporter. 2 pages., An Idaho federal court held that the law violated the First Amendment by "suppressing speech "on topics of immense public importance including the safety of the food supply, and the safety of farm workers and animals."
Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility, Makati City, Philippines.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2005-05-04
Published:
Philippines
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: C25264
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Retrieved September 16, 2006, Center web site. 5 pages., Reports on the shooting of journalist Marlene Garcia Esparat for reporting about allegged malfeasances of local Department of Agriculture officials.
Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility, Makati City, Philippines.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2006-02-14
Published:
Philippines
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: C25265
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Retrieved September 16, 2006, Center web site. 4 pages., Reports on the shooting of journalist Marlene Garcia Esparat for reporting about alleged malfeasances of local Department of Agriculture officials.
Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility, Makati City, Philippines.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2006-10-05
Published:
Philippines
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: C25266
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Retrieved January 15, 2007, Center web site. 3 pages., Update on the 2005 shooting of journalist Marlene Garcia Esparat for reporting about alleged malfeasances of local Department of Agriculture officials.
Committee to Protect Journalists, New York City, New York.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2005-04-11
Published:
Afghanistan
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: C25268
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Retrieved September 16, 2006, Via CPJ web site. 1 page., Brief notice that rural reporters in Afghanistan remain at risk of threats and violent attacks in reprisal for their work.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: C25270
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Retrieved September 16, 2006, Via organization web site. 5 pages., Notes that since February 1,"reporting from rural and remote areas of the country has become even more dangerous. Reporters are risking their lives, without having proper security and insurance for their lives. Dozens of journalists have been picked up by the security forces and interrogated. Some were held for only a few hours, but 10 remained in custody in mid-April."
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Arlington, Virginia.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2002-01-31
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: C25549
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Retrieved December 28, 2006, 1 page., Political issue involves press credentials for a broadcaster who covers legislative affairs for several rural television stations of Colorado.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Arlington, Virginia.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2002-11-20
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: C25551
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Retrieved December 28, 2006, 2 pages., Involves access to records about biotechnology research including safety protocols, compliance documents and corporate contracts.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Arlington, Virginia.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2000-01-07
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: C25552
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Retrieved December 28, 2006, 1page., "Pork producers can force the Department of Agriculture to invoke a privacy exception to the federal Freedom of Information Act on their behalf."
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Arlington, Virginia.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2002-01-30
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: C25628
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Retrieved December 28, 2006, 1 page., Political issue threatens press credentials for a broadcaster who covers legislative affairs for several rural television stations of Colorado.
Shafer, Mary Jo (author) and Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, Lexington, Kentucky.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2007-04-20
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: C25727
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Via Institute web site. 5 pages., Summarizes discussion at the National Summit on Journalism in Rural America, April 20-21, 2007, at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky.
Evans, Jim (author) and International Federation of Agricultural Journalists
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2007-05-15
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25781
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Posted at http://www.ifaj.org/news/media_in_2006.htm, 2 pages., Reviews statistical reports from organizations that monitor media freedom, internationally.
Evans, Jim (author), Roberts, Owen (author), and International Federation of Agricultural Journalists
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2008-08
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28176
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Posted at http://www.ifaj.org, 7 pages., Second part of a series of articles addressing the question of difficulties that journalists face in covering rural-urban issues.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28832
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, UI Archives., Bulletin 39, p. 2., Printer's reply reflects frustration with detailed demands that sometimes are made.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28852
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Agricultural Publishers Association records, UI Archives., Bulletin 232, page 3., Urges excluding from farm papers copy that attacks dealers, advertisers selling direct or through dealers, or reflecting unfairly upon a competitor in business.
Pattanaik, Debashis (author) and Sarkar, Runa (author)
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2008
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29017
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Posted at http://www.crisscrossed.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/1/the-participatory-web.pdf, Pages 20-25 in Annamarie Matthess and Christian Kreutz, Participatory web - new potentials of ICT in rural areas, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische, Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, Eschborn, Germany. 41 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29020
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Pages 34-37 in Annamarie Matthess and Christian Kreutz, Participatory web - new potentials of ICT in rural areas, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische, Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, Eschborn, Germany. 41 pages.
International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: C29048
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4 pages., Information technology researcher describes four challenges to having cheap and portable devices like mobile phones and PDAs offer real social and economic impact.
