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."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 160 Document Number: C26254
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From the Lexington Herald-Leader, Lexington, Kentucky, via Knight Ridder Tribune Business News. 2 pages., Describes career of Al Smith, long-time host and producer of the public affairs television show, "Comment on Kentucky." He previously headed a chain of rural weekly newspapers in Kentucky.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 110 Document Number: C10510
Journal Title Details:
1 page
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Presentation by Tracy Boe of Farm Director, WCMY Radio, Ottawa, Illinois, at Agricultural Communicators of Tomorrow Workshop, University of Illinois, Urbana. November 6, 1999.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D09318
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Online from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, New York City, New York. 5 pages., Interview with Beverly Bell on Berta Caceres and indigenous environmental activism. Caceres was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2015 for leading an indigenous campaign that successfully pressured the world's largest dam builder to pull out of the Agua Zarca Dam.
Interview by Gumucio Dagron involving "one of Latin America's key development communication specialists. His practice and his writings cover more than 40 years of contributions to the field of communication for social change."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 175 Document Number: C29969
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Via Food Systems Insider. 4 pages., Author critiques a government program intended to connect consumers more closely with farmers and food, especially through local sources.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: C25963
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Via India eNews. 2 pages., Features a special interest of Shree Padre, founder-editor of the "Adike Patrike" magazine "by, of and for" farmers in the Kannada language.
Evans, Jim (author) and International Federation of Agricultural Journalists.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2006-11
Published:
International
Location:
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.
2 pages., Posted online February 12, 2020., Brief news item announces that during December farm broadcaster Orion Samuelson (WGN Radio, Chicago, IL, and "This Week in Agri-Business" television program) marked his 45th year of doing a live year-end TV-radio interview with the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. It was conducted, as traditionally, in the office of the USDA Secretary in Washington, D.C.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 138 Document Number: D05732
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"Airing on the Side of Agriculture" from the National Association of Farm Broadcasting. 2 pages., Features Orion Samuelson, long-time farm broadcaster with WGN Radio, Chicago, Illinois, and his partnership with Max Armstrong.
Life and career of the third president of NAFB and "one of NAFB's legends who contributed much to farm broadcasting as a network broadcaster." His career also involved service as Chief of Radio and Television for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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."
Machila, Noreen (author), Emongor, Rosemary (author), Shaw, Alexandra P. (author), Welburn, Susan C. (author), McDermott, John (author), Maudlin, Ian (author), and Eisler, Mark C. (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2007-05
Published:
Kenya: Elsevier
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 161 Document Number: D07794
International: Research and Extension Division, Natural Resources and Environment Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36136
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38 pages., Findings of a series of regional studies, consultations and workshops organized by FAO in preparation for the World Congress on Communicationfor Development (Rome, October 2007).
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: C27732
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Abstract available in CD and print formats., Paper presented to the Research Special Interest Group at the annual meeting of the Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences, in Traverse City, Michigan, June 10, 2008.
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: 117 Document Number: C12851
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Chapter 5 in Shirley A. White (ed.), The art of facilitating participation: releasing the power of grassroots communication. Sage Publications, New Delhi, India. 367 p.
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: 183 Document Number: C37305
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See C37280 for original, Page 26 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: 178 Document Number: C35770
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"The Farm Journalist"series via online. 2 pages., Discusses agricultural journalists' use of new information technologies. "The challenge is not that of attempting to use all available technology but of selecting those parts offering the highest probability of working best for us."
Perez, Cledualdo B., Jr. (author / Dean, College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines at Los Banos), Quebral, Nora C. (author / Chair, Department of Development Communication, UPLB), and Evans, James F. (author / Head, Teaching and Research, Office of Agricultural Communications, University of Illinois)
Format:
Proposal
Publication Date:
1982-01
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10037
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This report is maintained in records of the Agricultural Communications Program, ACES College, University of Illinois, Urbana > "International" section > "Philippines - UPLB" file., 31 pages., Report of a joint study team charged with assessing the need for advancing education in development communication in Southeast Asia, proposing a multi-nation approach to addressing it, and suggesting a framework for cooperation.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: C26770
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Pages 5-27 in John P. Brien, "Research contributions in agricultural extension and communication," a thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Agricultural Science, Faculty of Natural Resources, Agriculture and Veterinary Science, University of Queensland., Author describes research interests, projects and contributions during a scholarly career of more than 50 years.
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.
Perez, Cledualdo B., Jr. (author / Dean, College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines at Los Banos), Quebral, Nora C. (author / Chair, Department of Development Communication, UPLB), and Evans, James F. (author / Head, Teaching and Research, Office of Agricultural Communications, University of Illinois)
Format:
Proposal
Publication Date:
1982-01
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10038
Notes:
This report is maintained in records of the Agricultural Communications Program, ACES College, University of Illinois, Urbana > "International" section > "Philippines - UPLB" file. Companion report is ACDC Document D10037., 4 pages., Companion report of a joint study team charged with assessing the need for advancing education in development communication in Southeast Asia, proposing a multi-nation approach to addressing it, and suggesting a framework for cooperation.
Evans, James (author), Lindsay, Robert (author), and University of Illinois; University of Minnesota
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1970-09
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 29 Document Number: B02870
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Project file maintained in the Agricultural Communications Program office, University of Illinois > "International" section > "MUCIA/ICDC Latin America Trip - Evans", Mimeographed, 1970. 22 p. Report to the MUCIA International Communication Development Council based on an exploratory trip to Latin America, June-July, 1970.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: C37319
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See C37280 for original, Page 40 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: 95 Document Number: C07495
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AGRICOLA CAT 90939434; Table of contents, abstract, and "Developing Effective Publications", Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1990. 113 p. (Ph.D. dissertation).
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: C37341
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See C37280 for original, Page 62 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.
Announces the beginning of NPAC "the day after Labor Day" at Michigan State University, with Stanley Andrews as executive director. Provides biographies of Andrews and new associate director, Frank Byrnes.
Online from publishing organization, by membership. 2 pages., Newsletter issue features the career of ACE member Dr. Erica Irlbeck, an agricultural communications teacher and researcher at Texas Tech University.
Rutherford, Tracy (author) and Chenault, Edith (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2007-02-03
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: C25601
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Presented to the Agricultural Communications Section, Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists Annual Meeting, Mobile, Alabama, February 3-6, 2007. 14 pages.
