Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 175 Document Number: C29994
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Via CattleNetwork.com. 1 page., Author commends a column written by the food editor of the Los Angeles Times. This file includes a print-out of the column (3 pages) from www.latimes.com.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23814
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Via Poynteronline. 3 pages, Author argues that "journalism on a smaller scale provides a bigger opportunity to connect with (and answer to) readers and viewers." Cites an experience in which a reporter at a small daily newspaper on the coast of rural North Carolina told her readers that the water was polluted with cancer-causing chemicals and that city leaders had known about the pollutants for many years without doing anything. She received a Pulitzer Gold Medal for Meritorious Public Service, but a hostile reception, locally, by people upset by the uproar she had caused in the community.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 185 Document Number: D00483
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E-mail message via Wayne Swegle. 3 pages., Comments related to recent release of a Washington D.C.-based agriculture reporter by the Des Moines Register newspaper.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23813
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E-Media Tidbits via Poynteronline. 1 page, Cites a rural newspaper editor who suggests: "As small papers concentrate their energy from print to digital, I think we are cutting off our collective noses to spite the face of community journalism - and not fighting for the attention of readers."
