Maru, Ajit (author) and International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2009-01-16
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 171 Document Number: C28709
Notes:
IAALD web site. 4 pages., Author describes the diminishing "value added" role of the "brick and mortar" library. "The Libraries and Centers as they are now may not exist."
Starr, Douglas Perret (author / Texas A&M University)
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2009-03
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 171 Document Number: C28812
Notes:
3 pages., Professor of agricultural communications and journalism at Texas A&M University describes current economic pressures on inews media in terms of risks to the role of an independent press in a democratic society. Cites seven things that should happen, for the good of all in the United States.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 171 Document Number: C28821
Notes:
Via Agmates online. 3 pages., Author and follow-up commentators respond to criticism of the Queensland Country Life periodical by ABC Media Watch for "churning out press releases as if they were real journalism."
Via online issues. 2 pages., Author alerts readers to a move to "put the mapping for where service is needed in the hands of Connected Nation, a company representing big telecommunications companies."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: C28969
Notes:
Via Ag News Online. 2 pages., Author notes changes such as reduced agriculture coverage by newspapers and increased available of online sites and services for such information.
Via online issue. 4 pages., Reports the impact of internet communications in revealing a problem of infant milk being tainted with melamine, an industrial chemical illegally added.
International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: C29048
Notes:
4 pages., Information technology researcher describes four challenges to having cheap and portable devices like mobile phones and PDAs offer real social and economic impact.
Author reports on this Free Media Pioneer Award from the International Press Institute. Also describes other matters on the agenda at the IPI World Congress.
Via Science Direct. 2 pages., Results indicated that the respondents had acceptable level of knowledge, excellent attitudes and poor practices toward food hygiene measures.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29251
Notes:
From BrownfieldAgNews via AgriMarketing update. 1 page., Reports on ag industry reactions to what one critic described as a "full-blown opinion piece disguised as news" in Time magazine.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29275
Notes:
Via Nieman Watchdog. 5 pages., The Congressional stimulus packages "could mark a new, promising beginning - or they could be a new boondoggle for AT&T, Verizon and rural phone companies."
Economic and Social Research Council, United Kingdom.
Format:
News release
Publication Date:
2009-08-07
Published:
UK
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29290
Notes:
Via Eurekalert.org. 2 pages., Summary of a research study emphasizes the importance of terms used in connection with public health issues. Also identified dangers associated with a gap revealed between media portrayal of hygiene and cleanliness in hospitals compared with reality in the wards.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29320
Notes:
Posted at http://www.aejmc.org, Paper presented at the 2009 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication convention, Boston, Massachusetts, August 5-8, 2009.
AAEA members, their publications and advertisers are showing signs of strengthening the role of editorial independence in today's commercial environment.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29365
Notes:
Via Drovers magazine. 3 pages., AgriTalk host Mike Adams interviews Bryan Walsh, author of a Time magazine cover article critical of the food and farming system and practices. Issue of balance in reporting of news media.
