Announcement of a 2002 Sigma Delta Chi award entry in the category, Investigative reporting - newspaper/wire service. Mike Lee of theTri-City Herald, Kennewick, Washington, received the award. Investigation uncovered 15 years of flagrant law-breaking and abuse by two farmer brothers. Actions involved disregard of state and federal laws and regulations, including illegal water and air pollution. Series titled, "Bitter Harvest."
Jones, Sandra C. (author), Waters, Louise (author), Byrne, Fiona (author), Iverson, Don (author), Sutherland, Max (author), Gold, Julian (author), and Puplick, Chris (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2012
Published:
Australia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: D07139
Retrieved June 28, 2006, Features the career and effectiveness of John Winter, editor of Farm Mail, published by the Daily Mail newspaper. Considered "one of the leading agricultural journalists of the second half of the twentieth century."
International Programme for the Development of Communication, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Format:
News release
Publication Date:
2004-02-03
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: C24721
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Retrieved September 16, 2006, 1 page., Describes a monthly selection of rural reportage from a wide range of local and community newspapers from different parts of India. "A considerable number of mainstream newspapers are now using 'Grassroots' as a source of rural news features."
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), Ruth, Amanda M. (author), and Muegge, Melissa (author)
Format:
Research report
Publication Date:
2005-05-31
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 143 Document Number: C22250
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Available in CD and paper formats., Presentation at conference of the Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences (ACE), San Antonio, Texas, May 31, 2005. 16 pages.
Wallach, Lori (author), Maybardukl, Peter (author), Hansen-Kuhn, Karen (author), and Jackson, Janine (author)
Format:
Interview
Publication Date:
2016-07-30
Published:
USA: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, New York City, New York
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 30 Document Number: D10567
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13 pages., via website, FAIR., CounterSpin interviews with Lori Wallach, Peter Maybarduk and Karen Hansen-Kuhn on trade pacts and corporate globalization
See the article in this 75th Anniversary issue (Doc. No. D09286). Special editions - Delta Farm Press, See article in pages 2-3 of this 75th Anniversary issue (Doc. No. D09286)
Evans, Jim (author) and International Federation of Agricultural Journalists.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2006-11
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 154 Document Number: C25098
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3 pages., Third in a special series of professional development features for IFAJ members regarding crisis communicating. Produced through a partnership of IFAJ and the Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, University of Illinois.
20 pages., Online via UI e-subscription, This article centered on the representation of food additives as a matter of key importance to the public's conceptualization of them. Findings from a systematic qualitative study of the magazines of two Belgian consumer organizations revealed that additives were seen as providing no benefits to consumers, for they could be used to reduce the quality of both the ingredients and the production process. They were perceived as a means of deceiving the public, with portrayal of consumers as powerless in the struggle for control over the types and amounts of additives they ingested. In turn, the limitations were seen as a failure of government and scientific institutions to provide the necessary protection.
6 pages., Online via Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)., Author analyzed case studies of corruption reported in 24/7 "convergent" media and concluded: "As the mainstream media is failing in exposing the enormous corruption in the government, there is a need to use the 'convergence' and 'blogging' to expose the corruption from the people side."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12116
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Online from the website of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona. 3 pages., Author describes four things for reporters to keep in mind as context when covering jobs in the energy sector of society.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 153 Document Number: D07409
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Online via the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University,Phoenix, Arizona. 3 pages,
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: D06772
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The document also identifies a link to this video production aired on national television, "Landline," at the weekend celebrating the 70th anniversary of rural programming on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation., Script via online from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 19 pages.
USA: Food and Environment Reporting Network (FERN)
Location:
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: 202 Document Number: D12115
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Online from website of the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona. 2 pages., Article cites definitions that include corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a sense of responsibility toward the community and the environment that companies incorporate into their business models. Includes resources that journalists can use to report on CSR. Identifies a source of data about the top 100 companies with the best CSR reputation.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: C29121
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Via Knight Science Journalism Tracker. 1 page., Reviews a column by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times about pigs and people as repositories for multiply-resistant staphylococcus aureus. Title: "Our pigs, our food, our health."
DeRosier, Christopher (author), Sulemana, Iddisah (author), James, Harvey S. Jr. (author), Valdivia, Corinne (author), Folk, William (author), and Smith, Randall D. (author)
Format:
Online journal article
Publication Date:
2015
Published:
SAGE Journals
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10599
19 pages., via online journal., We empirically examine the reporting on biotechnology in Kenyan and international newspapers between 2010 and early 2014. We identify news articles that reported on biotechnology and analyze their use of words to determine whether there is a balance in the reporting of perceived risks and benefits. We also consider how the sources used in news articles and how the publication of the Séralini study of rats fed genetically modified maize affect the balance of reporting of perceived risks and benefits. We find that in Kenyan news reporting, more articles mention perceived benefits than risks, but when risks are mentioned, new articles contain more references to risks than to benefits. We also find that sources affect the reporting of perceived risks and benefits and that the Séralini study increased the likelihood that perceived risks are reported in Kenyan news reporting, but not in international newspapers.
Newsplex at the University of South Carolina., Author argues that the only things about convergence that are new are some terms and the fact that duties once the prerogative of the news editor and the photographer and techniques used in newspapers and magazines now are relegated to the news reporter.
Kozak, Jerry (author / President, National Milk Producers Federation) and National Milk Producers Federation, Arlington, Virginia.
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2008-03
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 176 Document Number: C30200
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2 pages., Comments on a widely distributed video showing mistreated cattle at a California meat packing plant. Examines the increasing complications of cattle processing and other factors that "haven't really been the focus on the ongoing investigation."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: C37370
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See C37280 for original, Page 122 in Fred Myers, Running the gamut: writings of Fred Myers, journalist and 50-year members, American Agricultural Editors' Association. Fred Myers, publishers, Florence, Alabama. 125 pages.
Boone, Kristina M. (author), Spears, Jacqueline D. (author), Clark, Terrie (author), and Bergen, Lori A. (author)
Format:
Research report
Publication Date:
2005-05-31
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 143 Document Number: C22249
Notes:
Available in CD and paper formats., Presentation at conference of the Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences (ACE), San Antonio, Texas, May 31, 2005. 13 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C23819
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Reviewed 3/13/2006 at http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=83144, Via Poynteronline. 8 pages, Discusses values and methods of computer assisted reporting (CAR) programs at newspapers. Cites an example involving an investigative series, "Boss Hog, North Carolina pork revolution." Reporters used CAR to enrich some stories about links between Murphy Farms and state policies involving sewage disposition regulations on hog farms.
10 pages., Due to the Library's response to COVID-19, this document is currently only available through online access. If no link is provided in this record, the ACDC will make this document accessible through our collection once we are able to return to our office., This article explores some issues that have been important in the climate change mitigation debate in Australia. Findings suggest that opinion leaders believe the policy has been slow to progress due to media promotion of the uncertainty associated with climate change science, the weakness of leadership, and the political cost of unpalatable policy.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: C37322
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See C37280 for original, Page 43 in Fred Myers, Running the gamut: writings of Fred Myers, journalist and 50-year members, American Agricultural Editors' Association. Fred Myers, publishers, Florence, Alabama. 125 pages., Creativy of a photography who concentrated on spiders.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: C37309
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See C37280 for original, Page 30 in Fred Myers, Running the gamut: writings of Fred Myers, journalist and 50-year members, American Agricultural Editors' Association. Fred Myers, publishers, Florence, Alabama. 125 pages.
Posted at http://www.ipra.org/frontlinedetail.asp?articleid=1357, Author emphasizes courting stakeholders and building alliances strong enough to withstand media attack.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: C37351
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See C37280 for original, Page 72 in Fred Myers, Running the gamut: writings of Fred Myers, journalist and 50-year members, American Agricultural Editors' Association. Fred Myers, publishers, Florence, Alabama. 125 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D07684
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Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism,School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona. 2 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: C37302
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See C37280 for original, Page 23 in Fred Myers, Running the gamut: writings of Fred Myers, journalist and 50-year members, American Agricultural Editors' Association. Fred Myers, publishers, Florence, Alabama. 125 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: C29124
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Via Knight Science Journalism Tracker. 1 page., Reviews coverage of efforts in California to grow canola as an edible oil and environment-improving crop.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 175 Document Number: C29994
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Via CattleNetwork.com. 1 page., Author commends a column written by the food editor of the Los Angeles Times. This file includes a print-out of the column (3 pages) from www.latimes.com.
Announces Sigma Delta Chi award presented to the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper (Pennsylvania) for coverage of terrorism in an Amish community. "A world apart, shattered" was published October 3, 2006, p. A01.
Online from publisher. 2 pages., Describes how agricultural journalists in the Congo are continuing media coverage in all corners of their national territory, even in the midst of the fight against COVID-19.
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.
