Via UI Library online subscription., Owner of the Hardwick Gazette community newspaper in Vermont describes his experience in seeking a new owner through an essay contest. His quest included confirmation of the importance of community newspapers in their areas of circulation.
Summary of changes associated with the 100-year history of the American Agricultural Editors' Association, as well as future challenges and opportunities.
Retrieved 11/01/2006, Charleston Newspapers, via LexisNexis Academic. 3 pages., Author, publisher of the Anniston Star (Alabama), speaks about the role and worth of the community newspaper.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: C37312
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See C37280 for original, Page 33 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.
Examines early national journalism in the U.S. through the case of Joseph Dennie, who published/edited the Farmer's Weekly Museum of Walpole, New Hampshire, during the 1790s. It was short lived (1793-1799)and produced "an unusually large quantity of original and sometimes controversial content." Dennie is introduced as "a character worth dwelling on."
He did not become a public name by virtue of publishing exclusively under pseudonyms.
USA: University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 111 Document Number: C10788
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329 pages., Biography of Burridge D. Butler, owner of Prairie Farmer state farm paper, Radio Station WLS, Chicago, Illinois, and other media organizations in Arizona during his industrious career. Chronicles the history of these two major mass media organizations which he came to control early in the 1900s.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23414
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Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues. 6 pages., Reports on award presented to Tom and Pat Gish, publishers of the Mountain Eagle, Whitesburg, Kentucky, "rural journalists who demonstrate courage, tenacity and integrity often needed to render public service through journalism."
