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."
Via online. 5 pages., "Industry in a frenzy, trying to decode the sludge of public opinion while still getting used to the idea this is something to take seriously."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: C25288
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Comments before the Federal Communications Commission in the matter of Broadcast Localism, RM-10803. 2 pages., Author urged the Commission to seek ways to help maintain and encourage more localized agricultural programming on radio and television stations throughout the nation.
Interview with Barry Wilson, correspondent for the Western Producer., Publication of the Canadian Journalism Project, Ryerson University, Université Laval, and Carleton University
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 153 Document Number: C24782
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Meatingplace.com via Food Safety Network, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. 2 pages., Calls for efforts to educate the media and public about the how and why of reproductive cloning.
Cites findings of a 2012 national consumer survey, "Building trust in what we eat: consumers' knowledge of and trust in food production and how food marketers can improve it," by Sullivan Higdon and Sink.
Solomon, Norman (author) and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, New York City, New York.
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2006-05-16
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24433
Notes:
Retrieved July 7, 2006, Media Beat. 2 pages., Author discusses the limitations of journalistic work related to hunger throughout the world. "Journlism can't answer those questions. But journalism should ask them."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 185 Document Number: D00483
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E-mail message via Wayne Swegle. 3 pages., Comments related to recent release of a Washington D.C.-based agriculture reporter by the Des Moines Register newspaper.
Fleury, Jean-Marc (author / Executive Director, World Conference of Science Journalists in Canada)
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2004-06-10
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23745
Notes:
Via BBC World Service Trust.Org. 2 pages., "Development journalism is an oxymoron. Developing countries need good journalism and good journalists, period."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 179 Document Number: C35787
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"The Farm Journalist"series via online. 2 pages., Author suggests to agricultural journalists that "what you have yet to discover out there to work with could prove to be a most rewarding time in your entire career." "What you have learned in ag journalism is also what you need to succeed 'out there' and - what you learn 'out there' may be highly useful in improving what you are doing now."
Via online issue. 2 pages., "àperhaps more institutions should offer basic lessons in agricultural skills, as a way to make students familiar with an important American industry, if not to make farmers out of them."
Solomon, Norman (author) and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, New York City, New York.
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2005-11-23
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24434
Notes:
Retrieved July 7, 2006, Media Beat. 2 pages., "Today, some people have bountiful tables while others have very little. On the rhetorical surface, Thanksgiving marks a time of appreciation. But meanwhile, most of all, media outlets encourage us to buy - and forget."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: C24724
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Retrieved October 14, 2005, Via Science and Development Network. 4 pages., "A democratic dialogue over science-related issues is critical for modern societies. But providing reliable information in an accessible way is an essential prerequisite for this to occur." Author notes a worrying trend within much of the world's media whereby a traditional commitment to reporting facts is giving way to coverage on interpretations of fact (or "spin").
Online from publisher., Author describes the race that is on "to assemble and prove a tool that can deliver precision data and logistics throughout beef production spaces," connecting producers with consumers.
Lloyd, Mark (author) and Center for American Progress, Washington, D.C.
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2007-06-27
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 168 Document Number: C28107
Notes:
4 pages., Discusses how rural Americans are lagging behind in connectivity, compared with urban/suburban Americans and rural systems in other parts of the world.
