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: 148 Document Number: C23639
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Presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference in San Antonio, Texas, August 2005. 19 pages., Examines what Fourth Generation wireless broadband technology (e.g., for blogging, live television broadcasting, Web publication) may mean to newspapers in small communities. "The small-city newspaper must realize its own historical advantages in terms of depth reporting and its position as the community touchstone."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: C24758
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Retrieved September 27, 2006, Via Poynteronline. 3 pages., Case report about award-winning coverage by the News and Observer of issues related to big swine operations in North Carolina.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 143 Document Number: C22269
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Science and Development Network. 2 pages., Summarizes results of a survey of media coverage relating to genetically modified crops in five developing countries. Reports that "news stories often lack critical analysis of the issues at stake, and rarely represent the views of farmers."
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: C23413
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Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky, Lexington. 6 pages., Identifies efforts by some newspapers to cover the issue of methamphetamine abuse in rural America. Describes the issue and provides links to samples of media coverage.
