Author comments about the appeal of using online search engines, and what is lost when journalists fail to get into the country to interact with people, settings and activities.
James F. Evans Collection; Paper presented at the International Meeting of Agricultural Communicators in Education; 1990 July 16; St. Paul, MN, A lack of theory, models, and methods in the agricultural science news writing process spurred the initial investigation of this specialized writing process. Data were collected via process-tracing methods of a minute-by-minute observation of a farm magazine writer's writing process. The researcher used a protocol chart to record the nature and duration of the social-cognitive behaviors of the five stories. Results showed these cognitive behaviors dominated the writing process: organize, generate, compose, finalize, and edit language. The peak of cognitive behaviors occurred during the middle time period. The social-individual category showed a predominance of talking with associates while the social-organizational category showed a predominance of consulting documents. Cognition is the hub activity, significantly following social-individual and social-organizational behaviors. A potential model of the agricultural science news writing process was developed. (original)
Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism at the Ohio State University, Columbia.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2005-09
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: C25725
Notes:
3 pages., "Rural journalists from six states spent two days in Somerset, Kentucky in September 2005 learning how to more effectively cover complex federal and state bureaucracies and legislatures."
Article located in ACDC collection of NAAJ/NFEA Newsletter issues., Newspaper special projects manager urges agricultural reporters to work on two to three "investigative" or "critical analysis" stories during the next two years.
