Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: D07076
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Segments of this report and a related news summary were retrieved online at:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/ruralwest/cgi-bin/drupal/projects/newspapers
http://www.stanford.edu/group/ruralwest/cgi-bin/drupal/visualizations/us_newspapers
http://www.poynter.org/2011/community-rural-newspapers-surprisingly-healthy/138283, Online from the Bill Lane Center for the American West, Stanford University, Stanford, California., Data visualization of "journalism's voyage west." Uses the directory of U.S. newspaper titles compiled by the Chronicling America project, Library of Congress - nearly 140,000 publications - and plotted them over time and space, 1690-2011. Online site shows views as a serious of video animations across that time period.
Article examines relations between journalists and environmental nongovernmental organization. As well, it identifies barriers to in-depth, balance, and accurate news coverage of environmental issues and events in these former Soviet republics.
1 page., Analysis of media coverage of wildfires, with special notation of tendency of coverage to assign highest value to the interests of private property owners in the fire region and to assign low value to publicly owned land in the region.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: D11604
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2 pages., Online open access to abstract of author's thesis for a Master of Science degree in journalism, Ohio University, Athens., Author used quantitative content analysis and qualitative textual analysis of selected articles to examine comparative coverage of organic agriculture to consider further the ways mainstream agriculture magazines mayinfluence attitudes and understanding of changes within the industry. Findings suggested that over time the three magazines portrayed organic farming differently and differed in the amount of coverage they devoted to the topic.
