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.
Posted at www.ageditors.com, President of American Agricultural Editors' Association describes challenges facing editorial independence and emphasizes the importance of following guidelines identified in the AAEA Code of Ethics.
