Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 178 Document Number: C35782
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"The Farm Journalist"series via online. 3 pages., Examines problems facing the agricultural press and the publishers, editors and journalists working in it.
Describes how Cyrus Curtis bought Country Gentleman magazine in 1911 and it became "the dominant farm publication of the 1920s." The magazine "took the nineteenth-century symbol of the yeoman farmer and recast it in terms of consumption. In doing so, it created an idealistic image of a new class of consumers, an image that urban advertisers easily understood and willingly bought." CG had 2.4 million subscribers when it was sold to Farm Journal and Town Journal in 1955.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: C25854
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Presented at the 2007 ACE/NETC conference sponsored by the International Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences (ACE) and the National Extension Technology Conference (NETC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico on June 16-19, 2007. 2 pages., Consists of session moderator's introduction and questions the panel members addressed during the session.