Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 178 Document Number: C35770
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"The Farm Journalist"series via online. 2 pages., Discusses agricultural journalists' use of new information technologies. "The challenge is not that of attempting to use all available technology but of selecting those parts offering the highest probability of working best for us."
Swasy, Alecia (author / Washington and Lee University)
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2016
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 124 Document Number: D11222
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Online from Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, Florida. 3 pages., Observations based on analysis of thousands of articles spanning 50 years from 1964-2014. Findings prompt the author to observe that reporters given the chance to travel to remote areas have done a terrific job of putting a face on the plight of the rural poor."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29365
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Via Drovers magazine. 3 pages., AgriTalk host Mike Adams interviews Bryan Walsh, author of a Time magazine cover article critical of the food and farming system and practices. Issue of balance in reporting of news media.
Online via keyword search of UI Library eCatalog. 7 pages., Analysis based on media database maintained by the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association, which stores publicly available news media reports of agricultural injuries and fatalities in Canada. Fjindings suggested that prevention messages were rare (6.3% of 856 relevant articles) in media reporting of farm injuries and were decreasing during 2010-2017.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D02260
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Pages 127-134 in Keya Acharya and Frederick Noronha (eds.), The green pen: environmental journalism in India and South Asia. Sage Publications India, New Delhi. 303 pages.
