Introduces media sales representatives based in Chicago, Illinois, including those that represent various farm periodicals. Author notes that such representatives have been recognized in the advertising business for only about 20 years.
"Writing interesting and informative articles about the agriculture industry may be our role, but giving people the tools to make informed decisions about life should be the vocation of every journalist."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 174 Document Number: C29757
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Via Online Journalism Review. 4 pages., Question/response feature with New Zealand agricultural reporter, Philippa Stevenson, who "stirs up Kiwi farmers with her blog on snake oil fertilizers, gaseous sheep and global warming."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: C28970
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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.
"T. Harold Forbes and Francis T. Hunter are the youthful team who turned suddenly from entertainment and sport to clip the long whiskers of country journalism, put it into a suit of modern clothes and bring it smack up to date."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: C37362
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See C37280 for original, Page 115 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.
