Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: C28461
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7 pages., Deputy editorial page editor of the Richmond (Virginia) Times-Dispatch earns an international award for an editorial, "Government can solve the food crisis, too."
Interview with Barry Wilson, correspondent for the Western Producer., Publication of the Canadian Journalism Project, Ryerson University, Université Laval, and Carleton University
Gifford, Claude W. (author / Director, Office of Information, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
Circa 1973
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 68 Document Number: D10748
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2 pages., Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004, are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, Claude W. Gifford Collection., Emphasis on writing public information that is readable and understandable. Cites an example of a proposed news release from the deputy of one USDA agency. It contained a 68-word sentence found not understandable.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 179 Document Number: C35784
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"The Farm Journalist"series via online. 2 pages., Commends to agricultural journalists a book, The professor and the madman: a tale of murder, insanity and the making of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Author uses the career of a musician to emphasize the value of determining what part of your writing talent is unique, then "carefully create the best possible surroundings for that talent to grow and flourish."
