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: 173 Document Number: C29240
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Via Food Safety Network. 1 page., Organization criticizes lack of balance and one-sided reporting in a cover story, " America's food crisis and how to fix it," in Time magazine.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23753
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Via The Hoot, Media South Asia. 3 pages., "Precaution was necessary, not scare-mongering. So what was the masked television reporter doing in and around Navapur hamlets and hospitals?"
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 124 Document Number: D11198
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Online from ProPublica. 3 pages., Report of a response to ProPublica by a poultry company, Case Farms, described by government officials as "outrageously dangerous." Focus is on accuracy of information provided and reported.
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.
Online via cattlenetwork.com. "Best of Drovers - this month's top stories." 2 pages., Involves the defamation settlement Disney paid to Beef Products Inc. for faulty, damaging reporting by ABC-TV involving the BPI product, lean finely textured beef.
