USA: Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences (ACE)
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: D06646
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Commentary in the "ACE Retiree Update" newsletter. 4 pages., Features life, career and contributions of C. R. Elder, former Extension Editor and Iowa State College Director of Information.
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."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 171 Document Number: C28762
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3 pages., Responses to questions about communications skills and agricultural studies that agricultural communications students need in order to be most proficient.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23816
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Via Poynteronline. 3 pages, "If you want to practice journalism with a difference, mimic the military. Embed journalists everywhere. Embed them where people live, work, play, and pray. Embed them in neighborhoods, urban areas, rural areas, corporations, nonprofits, hospitalsl, families, retirement communities, conservative centers and liberal lodges." Author describes benefits.
Urges scientists (described as by nature reductionists) to pay attention to broader environmental health issues revealed in popular literature. Silent Spring (Carson, 1962) cited as an example.
Perspectives on the role of an ethical public communicator in "this toxic political situation called the environmental debate." Author concludes that in this information environment "the real ethical issue lies with us - the informed citizenry. An ethical citizenry would be rhetorically savvy in order to make sound choices about their local economies and their global environment."
4 pages., Via online., "The chief ethical fear for the past 99 years of agricultural journalism has been that one of our number would cuddle up closer to advertisers than others of us, and reap unethical benefits of that. The chief charge of every Ethics Committee [of AAEA] has been to protect our collective readers from any hoodwinking that would come from such collusion. As I look toward that 100th year, I wonder who needs protecting from whom." Examines pressures on agricultural journalists in the wake of divided audience perspectives about the role of agricultural media in covering contentious political issues
Via online. 1 page., Author notes how some journalists are now given the freedom to produce stories with the angles they prefer rather than provide objective and balanced reporting.
DeSutter, Kristin (author) and College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences and College of Media, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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Commentary
Publication Date:
2009-11
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USA
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29472
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23810
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"Tuesday Edition" via Poynteronline. 2 pages., Identifies sources of information and perspectives about farmer deaths by suicide. Cites the National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield, Wisconsin.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29393
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Via Kitchen Garden Network, Shaw Island, WA. 2 pages., Commentary about the potential value of social media for the "little guy" to take part in discussions aboug farming, food and agriculture. Three responses.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 190 Document Number: D02316
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Second article in a three-part series posted on the website of Palms Australia, an assisting organization based in Glebe, New South Wales, Australia. 2 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 190 Document Number: D02317
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Third article in a three-part series posted on the website of Palms Australia, an assisting organization based in Glebe, New South Wales, Australia. 2 pages.
Simmons, Denny (author) and Cooperative Communicators Association
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Commentary
Publication Date:
2009-05
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USA
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: C28961
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2 pages., Author, an award-winning photojournalist, emphasizes the importance of overlooking diversions and focusing "on what's important - telling truthfull and compelling stories to change the world."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 142 Document Number: C21968
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Food Safety In-Sight, Volume 3, Number 1, TM Environ Health Associates, Inc. 2 pages., Author suggests that food safety education efforts among food service personnel in Florida have not been especially effective in reducing the number of outreaks.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23811
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"Friday Edition" via Poynteronline. 2 pages., Reports on coverage by a National Public Radio reporter of fraudulent claims by crop producers against the federal crop insurance program.
Maru, Ajit (author) and International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists
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Commentary
Publication Date:
2009-01-16
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International
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 171 Document Number: C28709
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IAALD web site. 4 pages., Author describes the diminishing "value added" role of the "brick and mortar" library. "The Libraries and Centers as they are now may not exist."