USA: Food and Environment Reporting Network (FERN)
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D09876
Notes:
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.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26637
Notes:
Conference paper, Society for the Study of Social Problems. 2 pages., "The lines between art photography, documentary, and photojournalism have increasingly blurred since the early 1980s." Author cites Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother" image [disseminated through the Farm Security Administration] as an emblematic piece of concerned photography "now ubiquitous in realms quite removed from social concern for poverty."
Author reports on this Free Media Pioneer Award from the International Press Institute. Also describes other matters on the agenda at the IPI World Congress.
Massarani, Luisa (author), Buys, Bruno (author), Henrique Amorium, Luis (author), and Veneu, Fernando (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2007
Published:
Italy
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28077
Notes:
Pages 71-79 in Martin W. Bauer and Massimiano Bucchi (eds.), Journalism, science and society: science communication between news and public relations. Routledge, New York, New York. 286 pages., Refers to coverage of issues such as BSE and genetically modified organisms.
