Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23741
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Via The Hoot, Media South Asia. 9 pages., "The indiscriminate nature of local news does not encourage purposeful reporting on the development needs of local areas, and their populations."
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.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36878
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 15, Delivered to the American Association of Advertising Agencies, East Seaboard Convention, New York City, New York, December 3, 1940. 6 pages., Describes how farm papers cover agriculture and serve their readers..
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: 178 Document Number: C35774
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"The Farm Journalist"series via online. 3 pages., Suggests that ag magazines must respond to the new reality calling for readers to be far better served and to charge accordingly. "The force driving magazines forward will be content rather than advertising."
