Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: C22572
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Reuters release obtained online via Food Safety Network. 1 page., Cites forestry researcher who reports that many countries are wasting millions of dollars planting trees because of myths that forests help improve water flows and offset erosion.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C37086
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See C37085 for original, Pages 15-34 in Anna Robinson-Pant (ed.), Women, literacy and development: alternative perspectives. Routledge, London, England. Routledge Studies in Literacy. 259 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: D06631
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Raw data responses to a survey conducted by the Ethics Committee of the American Agricultural Editors' Association among 431 participants at the 2012 Young Farmers and Ranchers Leadership Conference, American Farm Bureau Federation, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Februaty 18-20, 2012. 1 page with accompanying committee member correspondence.
International: Two Sides North America, Inc., Chicago, Illinois.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 142 Document Number: D11532
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3 pages., Online via publisher website., Article from the non-profit organization, Two Sides North America. It reported progress in a campaign to stop organizations from making misleading anti-print and anti-paper claims in their customer communications. It included findings of an international survey among more than 10,000 consumers assessing their document-storing preferences and attitudes about print versus digital communications.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12066
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Online from publishing organization website. 5 pages., Report of letters sent to companies making questionable COVID-19 claims of treatments, prevention, or cures. Brief descriptions of the 45 disputed claims, ranging from musical medicine to holistic health acupuncture.
Letter to the editor regarding publication of research by Stanley Ewen and Arpad Pusztai regarding effects of genetically modified potatoes on rat small intestines.
USA: Food and Environment Reporting Network (FERN)
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09876
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Via FERN website. 7 pages., Addresses the broad issue of "fake news" through a case example focused on reporting at the "complex intersection of the meatpacking industry, immigration, the rise of fake news, and the changing face of America's heartland." The example focuses on reporting about Somali and other refugees working at a meat packing plant near Garden City, Kansas.
Online via journal website. 3 pages., "History is repeating itself," according to the research head of an ancestry organization which recently analyzed pandemic ads published decades apart - influenza outbreak (1918) and COVID-19 pandemic (current).
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 83 Document Number: D10840
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Based on a presentation at the Global Alliance World PR Forum, Toronto, Canada, May 2016. 5 pages., Brief definition of greenwashing in the realm of environment, discussion of risks and dangers in the practice, and guidelines for communicators in developing their environmental communication methods.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: C37351
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See C37280 for original, Page 72 in Fred Myers, Running the gamut: writings of Fred Myers, journalist and 50-year members, American Agricultural Editors' Association. Fred Myers, publishers, Florence, Alabama. 125 pages.
Via ProQuest Historical Newspapers. 1 page., Letter to the editor doubts the accuracy of a poll announced in the Farm Journal magazine indicating that Governor Landon was gaining throughout the West. Reason: Farm Journal is owned by Joseph N. Pew, Jr., vice president of the Sun Oil Company. "The Pew family has been a heavy contributor to the Liberty League and Mr. Pew himself was shown to have contributed at least $2,000 to the Farmers Independence Council."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: C37345
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See C37280 for original, Page 66 in Fred Myers, Running the gamut: writings of Fred Myers, journalist and 50-year members, American Agricultural Editors' Association. Fred Myers, publishers, Florence, Alabama. 125 pages.
