Swasy, Alecia (author / Washington and Lee University)
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2016
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 124 Document Number: D11222
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Online from Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, Florida. 3 pages., Observations based on analysis of thousands of articles spanning 50 years from 1964-2014. Findings prompt the author to observe that reporters given the chance to travel to remote areas have done a terrific job of putting a face on the plight of the rural poor."
Swindler, Samantha (author) and Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2011
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 184 Document Number: D00150
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Managing editor of a rural Kentucky newspaper describes her experience in investigating the county sheriff., Online Exclusive, Nieman Reports. 3 pages.
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: 157 Document Number: C25699
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Via Messenger Online. 2 pages., Announces the Ezzell family of the Canadian Record newspaper (Canadian, Texas) as winner of the Tom and Pat Gish Award for courage, tenacity and integrity in rural journalism. Award presented by the Institute of Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky, Lexington.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: C26009
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Via CyberJournalist.net. 1 page., Describes how a core of volunteers set up "sort of a cooperative" in Deerfield, New Hampshire, to form a citizen-written newspaper.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 30 Document Number: D10569
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3 pages., via website, Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, Community banks are essential to the local economy and play a vital role in the nation’s financial health. They provide business journalists a plethora of stories. To jump-start your reporting, here are national and regional trends regarding local banks.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 185 Document Number: D00590
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Via website. 2 pages., The author, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, describes funding resources that can help a small daily newspaper provide depth reporting.
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: 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."
10 pages., Via online journal., The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors influencing people's participation in the exploitation of water resources for agriculture. The population consists of experts with a B.A. and higher degree employed in various sectors of Agriculture Organization, Water Organization and Research Center of Urmia city. The sample was randomly selected, and the sample size was determined through Kerjice and Morgan table to be 196. This is an applied field study. The survey tool is a structured questionnaire with close-ended question and its validity and reliability is confirmed by experienced professors, and Cronbach's alpha coefficient which indicates the validity of the questionnaire is calculated to be 0.834. The results show that there is a significant relationship among the administrative, social, cultural, educational, economic, ecological, technical, structural and political factors and the importance of people's participation in the exploitation of water resources for agriculture. The results of multiple regression showed that the independent variables explained 66 percent of the dependent variable variance. According to finding in this research these recommendation comments: Improvement and shortening of water transfer networks in order to speed up the transfer of water and reduction of water loss. Government financial support in the agricultural-industrial sector in order to use new technologies. Preventing economic, social, environmental and political losses due to Urmia Lake drying. Maintaining the diversity of plants and crops through water management and environmental management and environmental ethics. The role of mass media such as radio and television, the use of other channels of communication in highlighting the importance of optimal water consumption. Government support for farmers to renew or launch pipeline for farms and gardens to prevent water losses, as well as supporting new irrigation methods and repairing old transmission lines. Increasing cooperation between people and society and even the state regarding participation in the optimal use of water resources.
Ruter, Dorine (author) and Piepenstock, Anne (author)
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2008
Published:
Bolivia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29018
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Posted at http://www.crisscrossed.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/1/the-participatory-web.pdf, Pages 26-29 in Annamarie Matthess and Christian Kreutz, Participatory web - new potentials of ICT in rural areas, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische, Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, Eschborn, Germany. 41 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: C24725
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Retrieved September 16, 2006, Via AllAfrica.com. 2 pages., Describes how community radio is manifesting itself in the form of digital audio broadcasting, online radio, podcasting and mobile radio.
