Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23425
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From the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky, Lexington. 2 pages., Report from an economic session of "Rural America, Community Issues," a conference programmed by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues for the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, University of Maryland, June 12-17, 2005. Spearker suggests that journalists should help public and private policymakers at all levels realize the challenges and choices they face in helping rural America adjust to seeking jobs in a globalizing economy.
Analysis reveals considerable variation in access to reasonably priced broadband telecommunications, in awareness of how those technologies can be exploited, and in levels of skills to exploit potentials.
Explores public perceptions of risk to the image of food exporting countries in foreign markets for food products that involve genetically modified crops.
Reports on "an intense debate over government-funded efforts to influence news coverage" related in particular to the Central American Free Trade Agreement.
