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."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: C25699
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Via Messenger Online. 2 pages., Announces the Ezzell family of the Canadian Record newspaper (Canadian, Texas) as winner of the Tom and Pat Gish Award for courage, tenacity and integrity in rural journalism. Award presented by the Institute of Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky, Lexington.
Summarizes activities at the first National Summit on Journalism in Rural America, convened by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues.
Via Society of Professional Journalists. 15 pages., Jon Marshall's "News Gems" item on the Society of Professional Journalists web site highlights an example of "the best of American journalism." Features a newspaper series about a husband-wife reporter team that spent a week trying to eat only locally grown and raised food.
