2 pages., Via online., Editorial critical of the Los Angeles Times newspaper for championing the rise of plant-based burger alternatives without context, accuracy and logic.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 136 Document Number: D11421
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8 pages., Online from organization website., Five core principles and 10 additional guidelines for meeting the highest ethical standards of professional practice.
Online from publisher website. Published February 6, 2020., Article addresses the shrinking number of full-time food critics in Canada, as employed by major newspapers and publications. Cites values that qualified food journalists offer through news and reviews involving food and nutrition.
19 pages., Online via UI e-subscription., Authors examined impacts of efforts by Report for America (RFA) to strengthen the capacity of local news and increase trust from the perspective of two communities: a neighborhood on Chicago's West Side and a rural county in eastern Kentucky. Findings illustrated "the influence of place and power dynamics on how residents navigate trustworthiness factors." They also revealed lack of feedback loops to provide coverage for communities.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 142 Document Number: D11531
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5 pages., Retrieved April 4, 2020, from the Campus Explorer website., Identified selected agricultural communications and journalism education programs at U.S. colleges and universities.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: D11543
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2 pages., Online via AgriMarketing Weekly. 1 page., Announcement of change in leadership of one of the nation's pioneer agricultural periodicals/media firms.
3 pages., Online via publisher. May issue., Author's description of his career in agricultural journalism, experiences with the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ), benefits of AAEA, and perspectives about writing.
1 page., Author expresses concerns about disappearance of trustworthy news content and urges agricultural readers to be "cautious in whom you trust and what you believe in the 24/7 news cycle. We deserve to know all sides of a story, not just the one that the 'conservative' or 'liberal' media outlet wants you to believe."
USA: Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: D11684
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2 pages., Online from publisher website., Noting that the nonprofit sector is the third-largest employer in the United States, the author encouraged reporters to provide context about these organizations in reporting the financial impact of COVID-19 on them. Food services and health care are among the sectors emphasized.
International: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris, France.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: D11692
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2 pages., Online from organization website., In an online event, United Nations leaders and others emphasize importance of free, independent, fact-based journalism at the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, May 3, 2020."I takes journalism to communicate the findings of scientists and disseminate real and reliable information and counter fake news that is dangerous to people's lives and to efforts to contain the spread of the (COVID-19) pandemic."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11694
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18 pages., Online from publisher website., Issue brief in the UNESCO series, "World trends in freedom of expression and media development." Reports seven key trends involving increasing disinformation, rising demand for verified information, need for more more transparency, some regulatory measures restricting human rights, risks to safety of journalists, economic threat to journalism, and new opportunities to stand up for journalism.
Online from organization website. 2 pages., Describes steps being taken or planned for governance of SEJ, membership diversity, representation, allyship, and funding in the interest of achieving racial equality within SEJ and in the news industry at large.
August 12 issue online from organization website. 3 pages., Identifies some data sources used by firefighting professionals to track wildfires and other incidents nationwide. Advice to environmental reporters about the firefighting web of radio communications: "Respect the tough and risky job firefighters do by not interfering. Do not broadcast on these frequencies. Leave them for firefighters. Just listen."
Online from organization website in August 12 issue. 5 pages., Six key takeaways from panel members during a recent webinar, "COVID-19's effects on freelancing - and its future." Topics: Finding stories, staying afloat, professional development, pitching stories, protecting your health, and the future of freelancing.
Article in online issue from publisher. 4 pages., Featured past president of the American Agricultural Editors' Association describes his career path in agricultural journalism, including 37 years with Progressive Farmer magazine, retiring as executive editor.
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.
Summary of changes associated with the 100-year history of the American Agricultural Editors' Association, as well as future challenges and opportunities.
Online from publisher. 5 pages., Career summary, including service as president of the American Agricultural Editors' Association (AAEA) during 1986-87 and 2011 recipient of the AAEA Lifetime Achievement Award.
Online via keyword search of UI Library eCatalog. 7 pages., Analysis based on media database maintained by the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association, which stores publicly available news media reports of agricultural injuries and fatalities in Canada. Fjindings suggested that prevention messages were rare (6.3% of 856 relevant articles) in media reporting of farm injuries and were decreasing during 2010-2017.
Online via keyword search of UI Library eCatalog., Report of an interdisciplinary journalism project involving relationships between information gathering and reporting in the mass media and in medical communications. Involved links between fishmeal and the fish farming industry in Peru.
8 pages, Online via UI Library electronic subscription, Examined news media reporting on farm injuries in Canada, 2010 through 2017. Only 6.3% of 856 identified articles included a prevention message. Authors concluded that prevention messages are rare in media reporting of farm injuries and are decreasing over time. "Improved reporting is needed to aid in farm injury prevention."
17 pages, For news media on the earth's driest continent, changes in the health and politics of Australia's largest river system, the Murray-Darling, have been a major national focus for decades. In recent times, climate crisis, drought and policy failure have combined to threaten its future, putting the issue under intense public scrutiny. This article offers a critical discourse analysis of specialist rural radio coverage of the issue in 2018–19. It identifies the discourses that the Country Hour program presents and considers the voices and viewpoints that are absent. Two critical discourse moments are analyzed: an ecological disaster in which more than one million fish died, and #watergate – a pre-election scandal over commercial water rights. We map the strategies and roles of Country Hour journalists and other social actors in legitimating the “productive use” of the river system above all else, politicizing the issue and shifting responsibility for the river's wellbeing.
