USA: University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D02874
Notes:
230 pages., Documents ready-print services (sometimes known as patent insides)that furnished newspapers printed on one side, or on two or more pages, to subscribing publishers. Estimated in 1912 to reach 60 million readers in the U.S. Author explores what was being written in those newspapers, and by whom.
Gifford, Claude W. (author / Director, Office of Communication, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
1973-06-25
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 49 Document Number: D10722
Notes:
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/, Speech presented at the 1973 American Farm Bureau Federation Information Conference, Rochester, New York. 17 pages., Author describes six concerns about where farmers are going to get their information during the years ahead. Also, he notes that he "can't imagine anything, including religion and politics, that is so fraught with misunderstanding, danger and distrust as farmers' public relations." Suggests two points that might gain general acceptance: (1) farm organizations aren't going to get together in the name of public relations or anything else and (2) public relations is extremely hard, difficult work. Offers suggestions.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23929
Notes:
Via The Hoot, Media Foundation, New Delhi, India. Reprinted from the Hindu, December 19, 2004. 3 pages., "The rural news network is live and well." Two newspapers compete in starting local editions, using stringers. Article describes the careers and activities of these rural reporters.
Australia: Hamlyn Australia, Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25291
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, 338 pages., History of the Weekly Times newspaper at the 125th anniversary of publication (1869-1994). Cited as "Australia's biggest-selling rural weekly newspaper widely recognized as the Bible of the Bush."
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."
