Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C23819
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Reviewed 3/13/2006 at http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=83144, Via Poynteronline. 8 pages, Discusses values and methods of computer assisted reporting (CAR) programs at newspapers. Cites an example involving an investigative series, "Boss Hog, North Carolina pork revolution." Reporters used CAR to enrich some stories about links between Murphy Farms and state policies involving sewage disposition regulations on hog farms.
Committee to Protect Journalists, New York City, New York.
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Article
Publication Date:
2005-04-11
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Afghanistan
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: C25268
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Retrieved September 16, 2006, Via CPJ web site. 1 page., Brief notice that rural reporters in Afghanistan remain at risk of threats and violent attacks in reprisal for their work.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23452
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Philippine Headline News Online. 2 pages., Describes how agricultural journalism has become "a big plus factor" in Philippine national development efforts, especially since 1976 when the Philippine Agricultural Journalists, Inc., organization was formed.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C23422
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From the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky, Lexington. 2 pages., Report from a session of "Rural America, Community Issues," a conference programmed by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues for the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, University of Maryland, June 12-17, 2005.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23424
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From the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky, Lexington. 1 page., Report from an economic session of "Rural America, Community Issues," a conference programmed by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues for the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, University of Maryland, June 12-17, 2005. Focuses, in particular, on the impact of Wal-Mart on rural communities and media.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: C24758
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Retrieved September 27, 2006, Via Poynteronline. 3 pages., Case report about award-winning coverage by the News and Observer of issues related to big swine operations in North Carolina.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23420
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From the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky, Lexington. 2 pages., Report on discussion during a session of the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication about the hub-to-spoke news production system used by Clear Channel Communications in radio programming.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23385
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Checkbiotech via Food Safety Network. 3 pages., Author highlights the comments of a speaker who urged fellow biotechnology scientists: "You have to take the time to communicate to the public. If you don't, the activists will."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: C23118
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From nbc6.net. 1 page., Sarasota, Florida - Online casino pays for bovine advertising. PETA representative said to like the colorful cows because one of them says "Go Veg" on its side.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 142 Document Number: C21969
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Food Safety In-Sight Volume 3, Number 1, TM Environ Health Associates, Inc. 1 page., Suggestions for teaching basic food safety to persons who work in restaurant kitchens.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23427
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From the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky, Lexington. 2 pages., Reports on seven rural-oriented broadcasters honored at the fall conference of the Kentucky Broadcasters Association.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23419
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From the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky, Lexington. 5 pages., Describes the role of Extension in helping tobacco growers and their communities adapt after more than 65 years of participation in the federal government's efforts to control and support tobacco prices in the United States.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: C25270
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Retrieved September 16, 2006, Via organization web site. 5 pages., Notes that since February 1,"reporting from rural and remote areas of the country has become even more dangerous. Reporters are risking their lives, without having proper security and insurance for their lives. Dozens of journalists have been picked up by the security forces and interrogated. Some were held for only a few hours, but 10 remained in custody in mid-April."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23425
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From the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky, Lexington. 2 pages., Report from an economic session of "Rural America, Community Issues," a conference programmed by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues for the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, University of Maryland, June 12-17, 2005. Spearker suggests that journalists should help public and private policymakers at all levels realize the challenges and choices they face in helping rural America adjust to seeking jobs in a globalizing economy.
Eighmey, John (author) and Iowa State University, Ames.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26744
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Via Iowa State University web site. 1 page., Describes how John Clay, a livestock businessman, helped establish journalism education at Iowa State University in 1905 with a strategic focus on improving communication for the advancement of agriculture.
Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility, Makati City, Philippines.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2005-05-04
Published:
Philippines
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: C25264
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Retrieved September 16, 2006, Center web site. 5 pages., Reports on the shooting of journalist Marlene Garcia Esparat for reporting about allegged malfeasances of local Department of Agriculture officials.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23737
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From Indo-Asian News Service via The Hoot, Media South Asia. 2 pages., "News stories in the media of developing nations often lack critical analysis of the issues at stake and rarely represent the farmer's view."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23418
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From the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky, Lexington. 3 pages., Remarks by Gene Clabes, former weekly publisher and former president of the Kentucky Press Association at the occasion of his being inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: C22331
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Meatingplace.com 2 pages., An Internet device developed at the National University of Singapore connects users to a real chicken via a chicken-shaped doll, comp;uter sensors and a Webcam link.
Cross, Al (author / Director, Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues)
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2005-04-27
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23417
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From the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky, Lexington. 3 pages., The man who proposed a reality show based on "The Beverly Hillbillies" explains himself.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23414
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Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues. 6 pages., Reports on award presented to Tom and Pat Gish, publishers of the Mountain Eagle, Whitesburg, Kentucky, "rural journalists who demonstrate courage, tenacity and integrity often needed to render public service through journalism."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: C22593
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Online from foodproductiondaily.com 2 pages., Companies planning to implement radio frequency identification (RFID) should "keep a good eye on their software suppliers, as the market and the technology is changing rapidly."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23421
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From the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky, Lexington. 6 pages., Report about presentations at the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications, San Antonio, Texas.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23739
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Via The Hoot, Media South Asia. 6 pages., "Development journalism needs to adopt an action-oriented approach to help the country overcome challenges like poverty and illiteracy."
Ford, D'Lyn (author) and College of Agriculture and Home Economics, New Mexico State University.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: C26031
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Sam Steel Society. 2 pages., Features Ralph Reynolds, long-time editor of the Furrow Magazine (Deere and Company) and alumnus of New Mexico State University.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23423
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From the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky, Lexington. 1 page., Report from an economic session of "Rural America, Community Issues," a conference programmed by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues for the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, University of Maryland, June 12-17, 2005.
Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism at the Ohio State University, Columbia.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2005-09
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: C25725
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3 pages., "Rural journalists from six states spent two days in Somerset, Kentucky in September 2005 learning how to more effectively cover complex federal and state bureaucracies and legislatures."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: C24722
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Retrieved September 16, 2006, Via South Asian Media Net. 2 pages., National readership survey in India shows a significant increase in the reach of the press (dailies and magazines) over the past three years. The numbers of readers in rural India is now almost equal to those in urban India.
