Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: C29124
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Via Knight Science Journalism Tracker. 1 page., Reviews coverage of efforts in California to grow canola as an edible oil and environment-improving crop.
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."
USA: University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 170 Document Number: C28542
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Via online report, Documenting Louisiana Sugar 1845-1917. 5 pages., Report about a father-daughter combination that served as pre-eminent agricultural journalists in covering the sugar industry in Louisiana, beginning in 1869.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 171 Document Number: C28822
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Via "Media Watch" online. 5 pages., "Media Watch" commentator criticizes Queensland Country Life farm paper for "non-journalism" - printing news releases as if they were reported stories. Shows examples.
Via online. 5 pages., Introduces an award-winning newspaper series published in the Charlotte Observer from February 10-15, 2008. The series reported "how N.C. poultry giant House of Raeford Farms hid injuries from federal regulators, blocked injured workers from seeing doctors and hauled others to work - hours after surgery for broken bones and severed fingers."
Online issue. 5 pages., Cited in "Jon Marshall's News gems: highlighting the best in American Journalism," Society of Professional Journalism, for a creative before-later approach to revealing the disappearance of farms and farm life at an urban fringe. Web site: www.spj.org/blogs/blogs/newsgems/archive/2008/02/07/16845.aspx
