Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23814
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Via Poynteronline. 3 pages, Author argues that "journalism on a smaller scale provides a bigger opportunity to connect with (and answer to) readers and viewers." Cites an experience in which a reporter at a small daily newspaper on the coast of rural North Carolina told her readers that the water was polluted with cancer-causing chemicals and that city leaders had known about the pollutants for many years without doing anything. She received a Pulitzer Gold Medal for Meritorious Public Service, but a hostile reception, locally, by people upset by the uproar she had caused in the community.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 185 Document Number: D00483
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E-mail message via Wayne Swegle. 3 pages., Comments related to recent release of a Washington D.C.-based agriculture reporter by the Des Moines Register newspaper.
Starr, Douglas Perret (author / Texas A&M University)
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2009-03
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 171 Document Number: C28812
Notes:
3 pages., Professor of agricultural communications and journalism at Texas A&M University describes current economic pressures on inews media in terms of risks to the role of an independent press in a democratic society. Cites seven things that should happen, for the good of all in the United States.
