Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 172 Document Number: C28969
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Via Ag News Online. 2 pages., Author notes changes such as reduced agriculture coverage by newspapers and increased available of online sites and services for such information.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: D11589
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5 pages., Online via publisher. 5 pages., Author interviewed Al Cross, director of the Institute of Rural Journalism and Community Issues, about the background of the Rural Blog and more generally about changes in the ways national and local journalists cover - or talk about- rural journalism. Other topics involved gaps in national news coverage about rural areas, who is doing rural journalism well, and effects of newspaper ownership changes in the types of stories that rural news outlets cover.
Hansen, Elizabeth K. (author), Givens, Deborah T. (author), and Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, Lexington, Kentucky.
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Paper
Publication Date:
2007-04-20
Published:
USA
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: C25728
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Via Institute web site. 4 pages., Paper presented at the National Summit on Journalism in Rural America, April 20-21, 2007, at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky. Findings based on responses from 12 newspapers in eastern Kentucky to an online survey.
8 p., What do journalists think about information source trustworthiness, bias, and fairness in communicating agricultural biotechnology issues? Fifty Texas journalists and 40 national agriculture journalists representing newspapers and television media responded to this study. Journalists believed university scientists/researchers and newspapers were trustworthy, unbiased, and fair, while activist groups were untrustworthy, completely biased, and unfair in communicating agricultural biotechnology issues. They were most opposed to public opinion outweighing scientists' opinions when making decisions about scientific research. A substantial positive correlation occurred between national agriculture journalists' attitudes toward democratic processes in science (i.e., the extent that public opinion is considered in scientific decision-making processes) and trust in newspapers.
