Announcement of a 2002 Sigma Delta Chi award entry in the category, Investigative reporting - newspaper/wire service. Mike Lee of theTri-City Herald, Kennewick, Washington, received the award. Investigation uncovered 15 years of flagrant law-breaking and abuse by two farmer brothers. Actions involved disregard of state and federal laws and regulations, including illegal water and air pollution. Series titled, "Bitter Harvest."
Retrieved June 28, 2006, Features the career and effectiveness of John Winter, editor of Farm Mail, published by the Daily Mail newspaper. Considered "one of the leading agricultural journalists of the second half of the twentieth century."
Evans, Jim (author) and International Federation of Agricultural Journalists.
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2006-11
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International
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 154 Document Number: C25098
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3 pages., Third in a special series of professional development features for IFAJ members regarding crisis communicating. Produced through a partnership of IFAJ and the Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, University of Illinois.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: C29121
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Via Knight Science Journalism Tracker. 1 page., Reviews a column by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times about pigs and people as repositories for multiply-resistant staphylococcus aureus. Title: "Our pigs, our food, our health."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: C37370
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See C37280 for original, Page 122 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.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: C37322
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See C37280 for original, Page 43 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., Creativy of a photography who concentrated on spiders.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: C29124
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Via Knight Science Journalism Tracker. 1 page., Reviews coverage of efforts in California to grow canola as an edible oil and environment-improving crop.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: C37287
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See C37280 for original, Page 8 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.
This issue is in the ACDC file of NAAJ/NFEA newsletters., News item about a series of investigative stories, "Failing the Grade," by Jeff Taylor and Mike McGraw that earned a Pulitzer Prize for the Kansas City Star.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 117 Document Number: C12858
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Chapter 6 in Anjan Kumar Banerji (ed.), Communication and development. Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. 135 pages.
Reports on a meeting of agriculture and journalism deans to examine agricultural journalism curricula. They hear calls for courses and curricula that encompass not only "micro" skills (e.g., writing and broadcasting techniques) but also "macro" aspects such as international communications, rural-urban issues and national food and agricultural policy concerns.
