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: 167 Document Number: C27817
Notes:
Historical sketches from the Agricultural Journalism Library, University of Wisconsin. Data collected in about 1925., Included: American Cookery, American Food Journal, American Motherhood, American Needlewoman, Arkansas Homestead, Baby, Babyhood, Better Homes and Gardens, Boyce's Home Folks, Delineator, Farmer's Wife, Forecase, Good Health, Good Housekeeping, Good Stories, Holland's Magazine, Home Circle, Home Friend Magazine, Hostess, Household Magazine, Ladies' Home Journal, McCall's, Modern Pricilla, Mother's Home Life, Nation's Health, People's Home Journal, People's Popular Monthly, Pictorial Review, Social Progress, Today's Housewife, Vogue, Woman's Digest, Woman's Home Companion, and Woman's World
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: C22545
Notes:
Published in a column, "The Final Word," from Food Routes Network, Millheim, Pennsylvania. Issue 45. 2 pages., Author reports on consolidation of farm periodicals, with resulting cutbacks in editorial staffing and in local coverage. Describes financial pressures that lead to more use of free-lance writers that often write for ag publications and ag public relations agencies simultaneously. "But the divided loyalties often yield stories that resemble corporate press releases more than journalism." Cites an example from his experience as a free-lance writer.
Wylie, John M. II (author) and Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, Lexington, Kentucky.
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2007-04-20
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: C25731
Notes:
Via Institute web site. 2 pages., Paper presented at the National Summit on Journalism in Rural America, April 20-21, 2007, at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky.
Jarnagin, R.A. (author / University of Illinois, College of Agriculture) and University of Illinois, College of Agriculture
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1962
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 23 Document Number: B02440
Notes:
#914, Harold Swanson Collection, Urbana, IL : University of Illinois, College of Agriculture, Extension Editorial Office, 1962. 6 p. (Agricultural Communications Research Report 11)
Cites journalism educator Don Ranley who urges maintaining the wall between editorial and advertising, in the interest of reader credibility. "I am not a businessman, but it has to be good business to be trusted."
