Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23441
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Reports on other topics featuring interviews with rural Americans can be found at www.wkkf.org., This report is part of a project seeking to understand how various groups perceive rural America, its challenges and strengths. "Perceptions of rural America" looks at how certain news organizations report on the rural population. Researchers analyzed the events and issues making news, the sources quoted, and the opinions these sources expressed about the current and future state of rural America. Researchers conducted a content analysis of news coverage during the six-month period from Jan. 1, 2002, through June 30, 2002, in a sample of major newspapers, news magazines and television networks.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: D10893
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Online from "Rural Blog" of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky, Lexington.3 pages., Features a reporter's use of computer-assisted reporting skills to examine deaths of unbuckled drivers in Virginia, especially those in rural areas. Findings emphasize unbuckled drivers of pickup trucks.
Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism at the Ohio State University, Columbia.
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Article
Publication Date:
2005-09
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USA
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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."
Via LexisNexis Academic, Africa News. 2 pages., Author describes being insulted and possibly threatened by an agricultural company that disagreed with an article published.
