Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24469
Notes:
Meatingplace.com via Food Safety Network. 3 pages., Commends efforts in the poultry industry to emphasize "substance" rather than the "sizzle" that often characterizes high-profile marketing campaigns these days.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 178 Document Number: C35774
Notes:
"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."
Reports that focus group research among farm readers shows they want information that is not a commercial on the editorial pages they read. "Isn't it strange? The very credibility these folks crave is the first thing to disappear when publishers agree to relax their standards."
Southeastern Newspapers Corporation via LexisNexis Academic. 2 pages., Author comments about pressures on tv meteorologists to avoid discussing global warming, a topic that he believes may jeopardize advertising revenues from corporate advertisers.
Tongue in cheek, the author explores the idea that those who promote consumption of farm products need to use mascots. "We may neet to put a funny face on our productà"
Seward, Zachary M. (author) and Nieman Journalism Lab, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2009-11-10
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 176 Document Number: C30263
Notes:
2 pages., Unusual approach used by a seafood organization to counteract negative press coverage through use of Google ads placed near keywords related to the fish involved.
