Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 55 Document Number: C01294
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See C02027 for original. Claude W. Gifford Collection., Pages 39-53 in Hays, Robert G. and Evans, James F., eds. (1983) The Agricultural Communicator Today and Tomorrow : four professional views. Urbana, IL : University of Illinois, College of Agriculture, Office of Agricultural Communications. Speech presented at the University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, April 8 1981)
Online from publisher. 2 pages., Advice to young journalists. "As a professional, you have to be better than only an instagram post writer. You must consciously and intentionally develop your skills of conversation. Sit down with your granny and ask her about her life as a young girl. Find out what your papaw was really thinking and feeling as he stepped onto some faraway battlefield as a terrified kid. And when you interview that farmer or lineman or craftsperson for your Co-op's publication, find out why they do what they do, not just what they do."
3 pages., Features "one of the pre-eminent Western-adventure novelists of his time" and a writer who "also ranks among America's profoundly involved agricultural journalists."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: C37356
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See C37280 for original, Page 78 in Fred Myers, Running the gamut: writings of Fred Myers, journalist and 50-year members, American Agricultural Editors' Association. Fred Myers, publishers, Florence, Alabama. 125 pages.
6 pages, Examines pressures on editors, publishers and reporters in small communities. Emphasizes that weekly papers are essential to community, debate and democracy.
