USA: Southern Farm Network, Raleigh, North Carolina
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12144
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Brief report on "SFN Today" featured the national Agricultural Communicators of Tomorrow (ACT) student organization. 2 pages., Briefly described the development and goals of the organization, the programming it offers to student members, and the current student and faculty leadership.
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."
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."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 144 Document Number: D06528
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Panel presentation at "Food and Agricultural Communications: The next frontier." Symposium sponsored by the Agricultural Communications Program,offered jointly by the College of Media and College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, in Champaign, Illinois, February 17, 2012. 4 pages.
