Editor of Western Farm Press explains how shameless it would be for editors to waste paper and ink to brag about their grandchildren and even include photos of them (as he does here).
See related dissertation: "Reading, reform and rural change: the Midwestern farm press, 1895-1920", This article argues that historians should not take agricultural newspapers as is and assume they expressed the farmer's point of view. Farm newspapers often reflected urban reform ideas, such as those involving rural school consolidation, rural churches and family farms. "Farm newspapers are better seen not as expressing the ideas of farmers, but providing a forum for reformers and farmers to debate proposed changes to country life." Research involved four midwestern farm newspapers between 1895 and 1920: Iowa Homestead; Wallaces' Farmer; Prairie Farmer; and Missouri Ruralist.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 69 Document Number: D10734
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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/, Item 80 located in ACDC Document D10726, Directory of written summaries of 80 items deposited in the Claude W. Gifford Papers, University of Illinois Archives. 30 pages., Includes a three-page 1967 resume about Farm Journal editor Carroll Streeter, plus a detailed summary of staff correspondence between 1948 and 1971. The summary reveals Streeter's approach to farm periodical editing and management, relations with staff members, and other aspects of his style as an effective long-time agricultural editor.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 69 Document Number: D10726
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#980, 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/, Three-ring binder in the Claude W. Gifford Collection, Agricultural Communications Documentation Center., When the author provided his papers to the University of Illinois Archives he preceded each item with a written summary of what was in that entry. This three-ring binder contains copies of the 80 written summaries. An "item" is a topical collection of the author's materials.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 69 Document Number: D10727
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#980, 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/, Item 14 located in ACDC Document D10726, Directory of written summaries of 80 items deposited in the Claude W. Gifford Papers, University of Illinois Archives. 5 pages., Author's brief summary, with selected emphases.
Cites journalism educator Don Ranley who urges maintaining the wall between editorial and advertising, in the interest of reader credibility. "I am not a businessman, but it has to be good business to be trusted."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22087
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Pages 131-139 in Charles Okigbo and Festus Eribo (eds.), Development and communication in Africa. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, Maryland. 249 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23740
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Via The Hoot, Media South Asia. 10 pages., "Have district editions created a public sphere? Or have they merely created a daily bulletin board which people read to see if their names are mentioned?"
