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.
Evans, Jim (author) and Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois, Urbana.
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2007-07
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: C26056
Notes:
3 pages, Thoughts offered in response to that question from a professional agricultural journalist. Focus on key appeals, key audiences and some possible means.
"Farmers' lack of market power is the real enemy, so farmers and ranchers must work together to gain bargaining power, because, without it, independent farmers have little hope of survival." Mentions issue of farm organizations, agricultural trade and commodity groups misrepresenting their interests to Congress and policy makers by posing as the family farmer.
Waters, Henry Jackson (author / President, Kansas State Agricultural College)
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
1917-03
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26743
Notes:
Inside front cover of Nelson Antrim Crawford, "Preparation for editorial work on farm papers," Kansas State Agricultural College Bulletin, 1(5). 1 page., Author describes the role and importance of the agricultural press. "We may wonder at times if we haven't too many agricultural papers, but we may as well ask ourselves if we haven't too many churches or too many schools, for the farm paper is a necessary part of the large program which these institutions are helping to carry out."
Via online access. 7 pages., Examines the elements of an "honest vision for the future with a shared language that accurately describes our world." Size of farm is not the key indicator, the author argues.
Author suggests the role of agricultural editors is not to speak to consumers about the importance of agriculture, but to speak to producers about the importance of consumers.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: C28461
Notes:
7 pages., Deputy editorial page editor of the Richmond (Virginia) Times-Dispatch earns an international award for an editorial, "Government can solve the food crisis, too."
Via online issues. 2 pages., Author alerts readers to a move to "put the mapping for where service is needed in the hands of Connected Nation, a company representing big telecommunications companies."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: C28970
Notes:
17 pages., Author's career experiences with particular focus on the relationship between a rural background and an academic career. Shortened adaptation was published in Zachary Michael Jack (ed.), Black earth and ivory tower: new American essays from farm and classroom. University of South Carolina Press, Columbia, pages 259-264. 2005.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29393
Notes:
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: 174 Document Number: C29643
Notes:
3 pages., "In the place of our journalism becoming development journalism in the sense defined above, it has become 'envelope' journalism based on envelopes with press releases reaching newspaper offices."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C30063
Notes:
Posted at http://www.fionalake.com.au/agricultural-journalism.html, Home page of author. 1 page., Author emphasizes the importance of agriculture and the importance of good quality media stories in support of it.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 176 Document Number: C30262
Notes:
7 pages., "If more of our news is going to be produced by non-traditional sources - like NGOs who have an interest in promoting their own agenda - how can news consumers sort through their sources and figure out who to believe?"
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 178 Document Number: C35774
Notes:
"The Farm Journalist"series via online. 3 pages., Suggests that ag magazines must respond to the new reality calling for readers to be far better served and to charge accordingly. "The force driving magazines forward will be content rather than advertising."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 178 Document Number: C35782
Notes:
"The Farm Journalist"series via online. 3 pages., Examines problems facing the agricultural press and the publishers, editors and journalists working in it.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 178 Document Number: C35783
Notes:
"The Farm Journalist"series via online. 2 pages., Author suggests that "opportunities for documenting and presenting memorable images of American agriculture are greater now than ever before."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 179 Document Number: C35785
Notes:
"The Farm Journalist"series via online. 2 pages., Author suggests that even in the face of compressed time and higher waves in the ocean of work, agricultural journalists can control the knob of that crescendo. "Even if you are the only one able to perceive your value, so be it. Smile. Laugh."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 179 Document Number: C35786
Notes:
"The Farm Journalist"series via online. 3 pages., Suggestions for successful management and operation of organizations. "We in ag journalism need all the help we can get. Organizations serving this profession need all the help we can give them."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: C37198
Notes:
4 pages., Think Piece 2 - to provide background insights into Agricultural Science as a factor to influence and impact future agricultural production and rural viability challenges.
Evans, Jim (author) and Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois, Urbana.
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2013-04
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 188 Document Number: D01388
Notes:
1 page., Brief review of the author's chosen role as an agricultural communications faculty member in the academic community, with emphasis on the relationship with agriculture.
Evans, Jim (author) and Agricultural Communications Program, College of Media and College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2013-04
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 189 Document Number: D01617
Notes:
2 pages., Responses by author to four questions about: definition of agricultural journalism, main reasons IFAJ began, subjects that IFAJ covers and the future of agricultural journalism. These questions came to the Agricultural Communications Documentation Center.
