Reports that focus group research among farm readers shows they want information that is not a commercial on the editorial pages they read. "Isn't it strange? The very credibility these folks crave is the first thing to disappear when publishers agree to relax their standards."
Evans, James F. (author) and Banning, Stephen A. (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2005-08
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23966
Notes:
Presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication conference in San Antonio, Texas, August 2005. 13 pages., Report of qualitative research among a sample of U.S. agricultural advertisers and commercial farm publishers regarding their concerns and their perspectives about managing the editorial-advertising "wall." Authors employed a contractualist model in which power within the reader-publisher-advertiser triad requires mutual agreement by all parties.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: C23348
Notes:
Alternet, a project of the Independent Media Institute. 6 pages., Describes some potentials and risks of nanotechnology, as developed within the food sector. Includes discussion of consumer trust and public concerns.
Wingenbach, Gary J. (author) and Rutherford, Tracy A. (author)
Format:
Research report
Publication Date:
2005-05-31
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 143 Document Number: C22253
Notes:
Available in CD and paper formats., Presentation at conference of the Association for Communication Excellence in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Life and Human Sciences (ACE), San Antonio, Texas, May 31, 2005. 12 pages.
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.
Cites journalism educator Don Ranley who urges maintaining the wall between editorial and advertising, in the interest of reader credibility. "I am not a businessman, but it has to be good business to be trusted."
Hopke, Scott D. (author), Otto, Justin F. (author), and Shellabarger, Jacob W. (author)
Format:
Research report
Publication Date:
2004-05
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23496
Notes:
Agricultural journalism class project, University of Missouri, Columbia. 28 pages., Results of an e-mail survey among alumni of the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, University of Missouri. Respondents suggested increased coverage of agricultural issues, more reporter training on agricultural issues, hiring reporters with agricultural background to cover agricultural issues, and increased quality and depth of coverage of agricultural issues.
Lofstedt, Ragnar (author) and AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2004-04
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: C24602
Notes:
Retrieved August 1, 2006, Working Paper 04-10. 18 pages., Describes a new model of regulatory decision making - more inclusive, transparent, environmentally accountable, socially accountably and inclined to view scientists as "just another stakeholder."
Stern, Marc J. (author) and World Conservation Union (IUCN), International Union for Conservation and Natural Resources.
Format:
Proceedings
Publication Date:
2003-09-07
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 154 Document Number: C24927
Notes:
Chapter 5 in Denise Hamu, Elisabeth Auchincloss and Wendy Goldstein (eds.), Communicating protected areas. Presented to the Vth IUCN World Parks Congress, Durban, South Africa, September 8-17, 2003.
Kirschenmann, Frederick (author / Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture) and Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University, Ames.
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
2002-04-25
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: C23919
Notes:
Written for a conference considering Wendell Berry's Unsettling of America 25 years later, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., April 25-27, 2002. 15 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 154 Document Number: C24967
Notes:
Prepared by COI Communications, London, on behalf of Food Standards Agency., Summary of findings filed in print form. Full report (67 pages) available online.
Brecher, Ronald W. (author) and Flynn, Terry (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 173 Document Number: C29307
Notes:
ACDC has summary, Chapter 18 in Wanda M. Haschek, Colin G. Rousseux, Mattew A. Wallig (eds.), Handbook of Toxicologic Pathology, Second Edition. Academic Press, San Diego, California.
Irani, Tracy (author), Sinclair, Janas (author), and O'Malley, Michelle (author)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
2001-08-08
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 119 Document Number: C13484
Notes:
8 p., Paper presented to Science Communication Interest Group, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Washington, D.C., August 5-8, 2001
