Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C23819
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Reviewed 3/13/2006 at http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=83144, Via Poynteronline. 8 pages, Discusses values and methods of computer assisted reporting (CAR) programs at newspapers. Cites an example involving an investigative series, "Boss Hog, North Carolina pork revolution." Reporters used CAR to enrich some stories about links between Murphy Farms and state policies involving sewage disposition regulations on hog farms.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23418
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From the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky, Lexington. 3 pages., Remarks by Gene Clabes, former weekly publisher and former president of the Kentucky Press Association at the occasion of his being inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23414
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Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues. 6 pages., Reports on award presented to Tom and Pat Gish, publishers of the Mountain Eagle, Whitesburg, Kentucky, "rural journalists who demonstrate courage, tenacity and integrity often needed to render public service through journalism."
8 p., What do journalists think about information source trustworthiness, bias, and fairness in communicating agricultural biotechnology issues? Fifty Texas journalists and 40 national agriculture journalists representing newspapers and television media responded to this study. Journalists believed university scientists/researchers and newspapers were trustworthy, unbiased, and fair, while activist groups were untrustworthy, completely biased, and unfair in communicating agricultural biotechnology issues. They were most opposed to public opinion outweighing scientists' opinions when making decisions about scientific research. A substantial positive correlation occurred between national agriculture journalists' attitudes toward democratic processes in science (i.e., the extent that public opinion is considered in scientific decision-making processes) and trust in newspapers.
Wingenbach, Gary J. (author) and Rutherford, Tracy A. (author)
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Research report
Publication Date:
2005-05-31
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USA
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 143 Document Number: C22253
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Available in CD and paper formats., Presentation at conference of the Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences (ACE), San Antonio, Texas, May 31, 2005. 12 pages.