Baxter, Mary (author), Irwin, Robert (author), and Stoneman, Don (author)
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2008
Published:
Canada
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 191 Document Number: D02902
Notes:
The Canadian Journalism Project, Ottawa,Canada. 1 page., Summary of reporters' approach to an award-winning investigation of the contract operations of Pigeon King International.
Essay within the theme, "The Jungle at 100: A Century of the Journalism of Reform. Involves Upton Sinclair's book, The Jungle," and the ABC News "PrimeTime Live" broadcast in 1992 (and again in 1997) about unsanitary food practices at Food Lion, one of the nation's largest food store chains.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 139 Document Number: D05910
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Pages 19-37 in Liverman,D.G.E., Pereira, C.P.G. and Marker, B. (eds) Communicating environmental geoscience. Special Publication 305, Geological Society, London, U.K.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D06213
Notes:
Pages 257-271 in Matthew W. Seeger, Timothy L. Sellnow and Robert R. Ulmer (eds), Crisis communication and the public health. Hampton Press Inc., Cresskill, N.J. 287 pages.
Summary of remarks by a member of the board of ethics and professional standards for the Public Relations Society of America who spoke at a conference session of the AAEA.
Author argued that the emergence of transnational crises and threats such as the avian flu epidemic and climate change call for new ways of analysing news. "...the concept of global journalism is under theoretical development and still in need of a more stringent definition."
Retrieved online. 2 pages., "Farming issues typically receive little television coverage, but there has been a wealth of TV programmes on food and agricultural issues during the first two weeks of 2008." Description includes the return of a four-show run on BBC3, "Kill it, Cook it, Eat it."
Author comments about the appeal of using online search engines, and what is lost when journalists fail to get into the country to interact with people, settings and activities.
Evans, Jim (author) and International Federation of Agricultural Journalists.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2008-03-15
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: C27353
Notes:
3 pages., Reports fatalities, arrests, harassment and other restrictions that journalists faced during 2007 in covering rural affairs throughout the world.
Via online issue. 4 pages., Author describes "open access" journals and suggests web sites and searching methods agricultural journalists can use to gain access to them.
Irani, Tracy (author), Sitton, Shelly (author), Hynes, James W. (author), Cartmell, D. Dwayne (author), Blackwell, Cindy (author), and Edwards, M. Craig (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2008-03
Published:
Mali
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: C27715
Notes:
Pages 83-92 in proceedings of the annual meeting of the Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education at EARTH University, Costa Rica, on March 9-15, 2008.
Abbott, Eric A. (author) and Rodriguez, Lulu (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2008-06-10
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: C27728
Notes:
Abstract available in CD and print formats. Full text available in print format., Presented to the Research Special Interest Group at the annual meeting of the Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences, in Traverse City, Michigan, June 10, 2008. 27 pages.
Chodil, Katie (author) and Meyers, Courtney (author)
Format:
Abstract
Publication Date:
2008-06-10
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27729
Notes:
Abstract available in CD and print formats., Paper presented to the Research Special Interest Group at the annual meeting of the Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences, in Traverse City, Michigan, June 10, 2008.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: C27734
Notes:
Available in CD and print formats., Abstracts of six papers presented to the Research Special Interest Group at the annual meeting of the Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences, in Traverse City, Michigan, June 10, 2008. 10 pages., Titles: Genetically modified crops in developing countries: a meta-analysis of mass media coverage, public knowledge and attitudes; Conversations with gatekeepers: an exploratory study of agricultural publication editors' decisions to publish risk coverage; Branding the land-grant university: agricultural producers' and community leaders' awareness of the tripartite mission; Student publication's' place in agricultural communication curriculum; A content analysis of food safety measures on television's Food Network; and Food tube: online coverage of food safety.
Via online access. 7 pages., Comments on an article in the fashion and style section of the New York Times about urban residents creating small-space farms near urban areas where people are "hungry for quality produce and willing to pay a premium."
Via online issue. 3 pages., Based on a piece by Dr. Elizabeth Finkel (Organic foods exposed) that won the 2007 Bell Awards' categories for best feature writer and best analytical writer.
Weiss, Dick (author) and Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, Arizona State University, Phoenix.
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2008-07-31
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 168 Document Number: C28172
Notes:
Via online. 13 pages., Author cites three newspaper articles that reflect excellence in agricultural reporting, especially in terms of "putting pictures in readers' heads with telling details." Two of the three articles are available in printed format with URLs to online sources.
Evans, Jim (author), Roberts, Owen (author), and International Federation of Agricultural Journalists
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2008-08
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28176
Notes:
Posted at http://www.ifaj.org, 7 pages., Second part of a series of articles addressing the question of difficulties that journalists face in covering rural-urban issues.
Roush, Chris (author) and National Center for Business Journalism, Arizona State University, Phoenix.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2008-06-27
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 168 Document Number: C28193
Notes:
3 pages., Identifies "downward spiral for business journalism" and argues that what journalists, managers and media properties "seem to be forgetting is that there is no more important story to tell consumers than that of business and the economy." Mentions need for coverage related to food.
Knight, John G. (author / University of Otago, NZ), Mather, Damien W. (author / University of Otago, NZ), and Holdsworth, David K. (author / University of Otago, NZ)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2008
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: C28438
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: C28461
Notes:
7 pages., Deputy editorial page editor of the Richmond (Virginia) Times-Dispatch earns an international award for an editorial, "Government can solve the food crisis, too."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: C28484
Notes:
Via "For Ag Journalists" 3 pages., Author examines the credentials needed by agricultural journalists, especially as related to their understanding of agriculture and rural values.
Online issue. 5 pages., Cited in "Jon Marshall's News gems: highlighting the best in American Journalism," Society of Professional Journalism, for a creative before-later approach to revealing the disappearance of farms and farm life at an urban fringe. Web site: www.spj.org/blogs/blogs/newsgems/archive/2008/02/07/16845.aspx
Amjad, Khadija (author) and Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2008-12
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 170 Document Number: C28540
Notes:
Via Media Re:public Case Studies 2008: news and information as digital media come of age. 6 pages., Describes development and approach of a news website that serves several rural towns in New Hampshire.
USA: University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 170 Document Number: C28542
Notes:
Via online report, Documenting Louisiana Sugar 1845-1917. 5 pages., Report about a father-daughter combination that served as pre-eminent agricultural journalists in covering the sugar industry in Louisiana, beginning in 1869.
