Corbin, Ed. F. (author / Vice President, Meredith Publishing Company) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
1931-11-07
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USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36829
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 11, Page 1 of Bulletin No. 45-B., Message of encouragement to personnel of Meredith, publisher of Successful Farming, in the face of economic hardship.
See the article in this 75th Anniversary issue (Doc. No. D09286). Special editions - Delta Farm Press, See article in pages 2-3 of this 75th Anniversary issue (Doc. No. D09286)
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., U.S. Court of Appeals ordered the Midwest Farm Paper Unit, Inc., to pay $37,000 in damages for having acquired a substantial monopoly of the advertising in that type of publication, and that competition was destroyed.
USA: The Harvest Publishing Company, Cleveland, Ohio.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 47 Document Number: D10714
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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/, 11 pages, Brief history and description of the publisher of five state farm publications and two trade magazines.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22476
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Agricultural Publishers Association Record, Jan 1, 1918 - July 1, 1918, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 2., Agricultural Publishers Association Archives. 8 pages., Rationale and details of a proposed campaign.
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.
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.
Hayden, Victor F. (author) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Format:
Letter
Publication Date:
1931-10-29
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36832
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 11, 2 pages., Executive secretary reports that Association farm papers in 1930 had a gross commercial lineage revenue of $11,268,390.36. Announces reduction in assessment.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36895
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 23, Page 7, Minutes of APA membership meeting, San Francisco, California, November 11, 1987., Members note reports from editors about increasing pressure from advertisers to influence editorial material. Suggested that publishers exchange information when this happens.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36842
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 12, Page 2, Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois, October 18, 1933., A director, W.G. Campbell, calls attention to conflicting statements about the age of APA. Cites an unbroken succession from the Corn Belt Association and the Farm Press Club, an existence of about 30 years.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36847
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 12, 4 pages., Discussion copy for a plan to revise the Association's system of agency relations.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36813
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 9, Printed on back side of APA stationery. 1 page., Lists 38 member publications with a combined audited circulation of more than 7,000,000 per issue.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24817
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Listed on back side of APA stationery. 1 page., Lists 43 farm publications as members and reports a combined audited circulation of more than 7 million per issue.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36825
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 10, Printed on back side of APA letterhead. 1 page., Reports 31 member periodicals with combined audited circulation of more than 7,500,000 per issue.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C24822
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Listed on the back side of APA stationery. 1 page., Lists 49 member periodicals and reports a combined audited circulation of more than 8,211,579 per issue.
July 23 issue via online. 2 pages., Describes the purchase of American Nurseryman magazine by Vermont-based agricultural publisher, Moose River Media serving the green and agricultural industries.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28832
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, UI Archives., Bulletin 39, p. 2., Printer's reply reflects frustration with detailed demands that sometimes are made.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36839
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 11, Special Bulletin No. 80. 5 pages., "We come to this annual meeting after finishing up a fiscal year that constitutes probably the most difficult period in the history of our organization."
USA: University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D02874
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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.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 2 pages., Biographical piece about Cyrus H.K. Curtis, chairman of the board of Curtis Publishing Company. Country Gentleman was among the periodicals published by Curtis. Earlier in his career he founded the Tribune and Farmer. "It was from this publication that the Ladies' Home Journal sprang."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36836
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 11, Special Bulletin No. 34. 2 pages., Association member urges farm publishers to survey subscribers about their intentions for buying autos.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: C22646
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Presented at the Agricultural Media Summit, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 31, 2005., Author is World President of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists and Chief Executive Officer of IFP Media, which publishes the Irish Farmers Monthly and 30 other periodicals. Examines the relationship between advertising and editorial content, and suggests that integrity and impartial editorial content are "key to maintaining our product standard to ever increasingly discerning audiences."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: C25699
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Via Messenger Online. 2 pages., Announces the Ezzell family of the Canadian Record newspaper (Canadian, Texas) as winner of the Tom and Pat Gish Award for courage, tenacity and integrity in rural journalism. Award presented by the Institute of Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky, Lexington.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22492
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Agricultural Publishers Association Record, Jan 1, 1922 - Jul 1, 1922, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 4, University of Illinois Archives., Presented at the annual meeting of the American Agricultural Editors Association, Chicago, Illinois, May 15, 1922. 7 pages., Discusses his view of relationships among editors, advertising departments of farm papers, and advertising agencies.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: D11631
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2 pages., Online via AgriMarketing Weekly. 2 pages., Revised name and mission of what was formerly the Agricultural Publishers Association (APA) and Connectiv Agri Media Committee.
Gregory, Clifford V. (author / APA Secretary) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1936-10-14
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36853
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 13, Pages 4-5, Minutes of the annual meeting, Chicago, Illinois, October 14, 1936., "We believe that the time has arrived for Association members to become more strict with regard to the copy they accept."
USA: Interstate Printers and Publishers, Danville, Illinois.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C23404
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Based on the author's master's thesis, Southern Illinois University., 83 pages., Involves the life and contributions of the publisher of the Mercury-Independent, Grayville, Illinois.
Brown, Laurie Ezzell (author / Canadian Record, Canadian, Texas)
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
2007-04-20
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: C25753
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Presented in acceptance of the Tom and Pat Gish Award for courage, tenacity and integrity in rural journalism. Presented by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues at the National Summit on Journalism in Rural America, Lexington, Kentucky, April 20, 2007. 3 pages.
November 19 issue via online. 2 pages., "Cygnus Business Media this week folded its monthly food and agriculture group trade magazine, Frozen Food Age."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10086
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This abstract is maintained in records of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois > "International" section > "Philippines CARD group" file., Abstract of a research paper presented at the 3rd annual conference of the Communicators for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Mountain State Agriculture College, La Trinidad, Benquet, Philippines, October 21-24, 1982. Page 14., Describes how community residents identified need and cooperatively developed and published a popular manual on how to construct a low-cost fuel-efficient wood stove.
Posted at http://www.agrimarketingdigital.com/?iid=29085, Features Ogden Publications, Topeka, Kansas, publisher of Grit, Capper's publications and other rural lifestyle periodicals.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36888
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 22, Page 6 of Minutes of the annual APA membership meeting, Denver, Colorado, October 16, 1973., Discussion emphasizes that the strength of farm publications comes from freedom of the press, "but this story has not been told very well."
"Meredith's primary legacy was in the field of journalism, where he gave force to a publishing concept now called 'Service Journalism.' Meredith was aware of publishing trends, but he never strayed from the success formula that he discovered: Service."
Posted at http://www.agrimarketing.com, Features Meredith Corporation, which has roots in agricultural publishing and recently was named Publisher of the Year by Ad Age magazine.
