Executive editor of the centennial issue of this newsletter describes how journalism at Iowa State "began, so the story goes, with an idea 'born in the warmth of an open fireplace' in the Stockyards Inn at Chicago."
Eighmey, John (author) and Iowa State University, Ames.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26744
Notes:
Via Iowa State University web site. 1 page., Describes how John Clay, a livestock businessman, helped establish journalism education at Iowa State University in 1905 with a strategic focus on improving communication for the advancement of agriculture.
Author describes the role of John Clay, head of a livestock commission firm in Chicago, in stimulating the inauguration in the fall of 1905 of an agricultural writing class at Iowa State College, "perhaps the first formal course in technical journalism in the United States."
Beell, Thomas (author) and Iowa State University, Ames.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26745
Notes:
Via web site of the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, Iowa State University, Ames. 2 pages., Author describes the role of John Clay, a livestock businessman, in sparking the establishment of the first journalism classes at Iowa State College in 1905 to provide instruction in agricultural writing.
