Online via Japan AgriNews. 2 pages., Photos and story reveal skill of a U. S. trade representative in avoiding endorsement of an anti-free-trade effort involving Trans-Pacific partners during a protest action. During conversation with protesters, he quietly removed from a coffee cup the sleeve that contained an anti-free-trade slogan. 2 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Folder: 161` Document Number: D07869
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Pages 107-109 in M.J. Navarro (ed.), Voices and views: why biotech?. ISAAA Brief No. 50. International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications, Ithaca, New York. 158 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Folder: 161 Document Number: D07871
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Pages 114-117 in M.J. Navarro (ed.), Voices and views: why biotech? ISAAA Brief No. 50. International Service for the Acquisition ofAgri-biotech Applications, Ithaca, New York. 158 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 161 Document Number: D07873
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Pages 122-125 in M.J. Navarro (ed.), Voices and views: why biotech? ISAAA Brief No. 50. International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications, Ithaca, New York. 158 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 170 Document Number: D09010
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Online from the Food and Environment Reporting Network. 2 pages., Author describes an investigative reporting effort by Ted Genoway, a Nebraska-based writer. Provides link to the story, "Terror in the heartland."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D09318
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Online from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, New York City, New York. 5 pages., Interview with Beverly Bell on Berta Caceres and indigenous environmental activism. Caceres was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2015 for leading an indigenous campaign that successfully pressured the world's largest dam builder to pull out of the Agua Zarca Dam.
USA: Food and Environment Reporting Network (FERN)
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09876
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Via FERN website. 7 pages., Addresses the broad issue of "fake news" through a case example focused on reporting at the "complex intersection of the meatpacking industry, immigration, the rise of fake news, and the changing face of America's heartland." The example focuses on reporting about Somali and other refugees working at a meat packing plant near Garden City, Kansas.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 12 Document Number: D10392
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Online from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, New York City, New York. 9 pages., "Is it a conflict of interest for a columnist who covers food and agriculture to take money from agrichemical industry interest groups?"
International: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, New York City, New York
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 124 Document Number: D11204
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Via online. 12 pages., Article involves a Reuters reporter who has "aimed a torrent of critical reporting at the WHO's [World Health Organization of the United Nations] International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), portraying the group and its scientists as out of touch and unethical, and leveling accursation about conflicts of interest and suppressed information in their decision-making."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 130 Document Number: D11276
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19 pages., Online from FAIR website., Addresses issues in media coverage in the Oregon standoff between federal authorities and a Patriot/Militia alliance of building occupiers and, more generally, anti-government protests and standoffs.
International: Two Sides North America, Inc., Chicago, Illinois.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 142 Document Number: D11532
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3 pages., Online via publisher website., Article from the non-profit organization, Two Sides North America. It reported progress in a campaign to stop organizations from making misleading anti-print and anti-paper claims in their customer communications. It included findings of an international survey among more than 10,000 consumers assessing their document-storing preferences and attitudes about print versus digital communications.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11817
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Via website of Corporate Crime Reporter. 2 pages., An Idaho federal court held that the law violated the First Amendment by "suppressing speech "on topics of immense public importance including the safety of the food supply, and the safety of farm workers and animals."
