Committee to Protect Journalists, New York City, New York.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2005-04-11
Published:
Afghanistan
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: C25268
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Retrieved September 16, 2006, Via CPJ web site. 1 page., Brief notice that rural reporters in Afghanistan remain at risk of threats and violent attacks in reprisal for their work.
Irani, Tracy (author), Sitton, Shelly (author), Hynes, James W. (author), Cartmell, D. Dwayne (author), Blackwell, Cindy (author), and Edwards, M. Craig (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2008-03
Published:
Mali
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: C27715
Notes:
Pages 83-92 in proceedings of the annual meeting of the Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education at EARTH University, Costa Rica, on March 9-15, 2008.
USA: University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D02874
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230 pages., Documents ready-print services (sometimes known as patent insides)that furnished newspapers printed on one side, or on two or more pages, to subscribing publishers. Estimated in 1912 to reach 60 million readers in the U.S. Author explores what was being written in those newspapers, and by whom.
Pertains to an agricultural cartoonist being fired by a farm periodical after an agri-marketer's withdrawal of advertising due to dissatisfaction with the content of a cartoon.
USA: Purdue Pesticide Programs, Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service, West Lafayette, Indiana.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11775
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PPP-60. 34 pages., Detailed description of the role of media in society and guidelines the information provider can use to relate effectively with reporters and media representatives.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22968
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Pages 11-26 in Luke Uka Uche (ed.), Mass communication democracy and civil society in Africa: international perspectives. Nigerian National Commission for UNESCO, Lagos, Nigeria. 557 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C35801
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Pages 368-371 in L. John Martin and Ray Eldon Hiebert (eds.), Current issues in international communication. Longman, White Plains, New York. 390 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 117 Document Number: C12865
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Chapter 13 in Anjan Kumar Banerji (ed.), Communication and development. Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. 135 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29761
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Pages 109-114 in Thomas R. Dunlap (Ed.), DDT, Silent Spring and the rise of environmentalism: classic texts. University of Washington Press, Seattle. 152 pages.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Arlington, Virginia.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2002-11-20
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: C25551
Notes:
Retrieved December 28, 2006, 2 pages., Involves access to records about biotechnology research including safety protocols, compliance documents and corporate contracts.
Brown, Laurie Ezzell (author / Canadian Record, Canadian, Texas)
Format:
Speech
Publication Date:
2007-04-20
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: C25753
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Presented in acceptance of the Tom and Pat Gish Award for courage, tenacity and integrity in rural journalism. Presented by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues at the National Summit on Journalism in Rural America, Lexington, Kentucky, April 20, 2007. 3 pages.
"While the net may provide a new medium for dissent and opposition, its impact is offset by two principal factors." Factors cited include the digital divide and growing commercialism.
Reports on a court action requiring the USDA to release information identifying persons with whom officials met before they loosened rules on testing meat for deadly bacteria. "The agency did an about-face on the Listeria regulations, and the Consumer Federation of America suspected the change was due to ex parte communications with industry representatives from the meat and poultry industries, CFA lawyer Jillian M. Cutler told the RCFP." (Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press)
Cooper, Ann (author) and Committee to Protect Journalists, New York City, New York.
Format:
Letter
Publication Date:
2006-05-15
Published:
Philippines
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: C25267
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Retrieved September 16, 2006, Via CPJ web site. 3 pages., Letter from the Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists to Her Excellency Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, President of the Republic of the Philippines. Urges efforts to ensure the arrest, trial and conviction of those responsible for killing Philippine journalists, including rural reporter Marlene Garcia Esparat.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 174 Document Number: C29643
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3 pages., "In the place of our journalism becoming development journalism in the sense defined above, it has become 'envelope' journalism based on envelopes with press releases reaching newspaper offices."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36888
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 22, Page 6 of Minutes of the annual APA membership meeting, Denver, Colorado, October 16, 1973., Discussion emphasizes that the strength of farm publications comes from freedom of the press, "but this story has not been told very well."
Article examines relations between journalists and environmental nongovernmental organization. As well, it identifies barriers to in-depth, balance, and accurate news coverage of environmental issues and events in these former Soviet republics.
4 pages., Via online., "The chief ethical fear for the past 99 years of agricultural journalism has been that one of our number would cuddle up closer to advertisers than others of us, and reap unethical benefits of that. The chief charge of every Ethics Committee [of AAEA] has been to protect our collective readers from any hoodwinking that would come from such collusion. As I look toward that 100th year, I wonder who needs protecting from whom." Examines pressures on agricultural journalists in the wake of divided audience perspectives about the role of agricultural media in covering contentious political issues
Hayden, Victor F. (author) and Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1933-08-11
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36843
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Agricultural Publishers Association Records, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 12, Special Bulletin No. 16. 3 pages., Regarding participation of APA in the newly created Periodical Publishers Institute and the agenda it is to undertake.
Author reports on this Free Media Pioneer Award from the International Press Institute. Also describes other matters on the agenda at the IPI World Congress.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: C25270
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Retrieved September 16, 2006, Via organization web site. 5 pages., Notes that since February 1,"reporting from rural and remote areas of the country has become even more dangerous. Reporters are risking their lives, without having proper security and insurance for their lives. Dozens of journalists have been picked up by the security forces and interrogated. Some were held for only a few hours, but 10 remained in custody in mid-April."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: D06633
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Aggregated statistical summary of responses from IFAJ guilds in 17 of 30 member countries. Individual countries not identified. Report also includes narrative responses to the 10 survey questions. 13 pages.
Essay within the theme, "The Jungle at 100: A Century of the Journalism of Reform. Involves Upton Sinclair's book, The Jungle," and the ABC News "PrimeTime Live" broadcast in 1992 (and again in 1997) about unsanitary food practices at Food Lion, one of the nation's largest food store chains.
Barcelona, Delia R (author) and Gaje, Virgilio M. (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1988
Published:
Philippines
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14043
Notes:
Chapter 23 in Crispin C. Maslog, Philippine Communication: an introduction. Philippine Association of Communication Educators, Los Banos. 1988. 375 pages.
Evans, Jim (author) and International Federation of Agricultural Journalists.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2007-06-30
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: C25978
Notes:
3 pages., Features a newspaper publishing family honored for courage, tenacity and integrity by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues.
Evans, Jim (author) and International Federation of Agricultural Journalists
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2007-05-15
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25781
Notes:
Posted at http://www.ifaj.org/news/media_in_2006.htm, 2 pages., Reviews statistical reports from organizations that monitor media freedom, internationally.
Describes questions being addressed by members of a special subcommittee of IFAJ to explore issues and potential direction of future policy of the organization regarding membership.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11817
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Via website of Corporate Crime Reporter. 2 pages., An Idaho federal court held that the law violated the First Amendment by "suppressing speech "on topics of immense public importance including the safety of the food supply, and the safety of farm workers and animals."
4 pages., Online via publication website., Author addresses a Parks Canada policy that prevented employees from speaking with the media without approval. This follows up on an earlier article, "Parks in the dark," published in The Narwhal and shining "a bright light on how Parks Canada's media relations' practices hinder press freedom."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11694
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18 pages., Online from publisher website., Issue brief in the UNESCO series, "World trends in freedom of expression and media development." Reports seven key trends involving increasing disinformation, rising demand for verified information, need for more more transparency, some regulatory measures restricting human rights, risks to safety of journalists, economic threat to journalism, and new opportunities to stand up for journalism.
International Press Institute (author) and International Press Institute
Format:
Letter
Publication Date:
1999-08-10
Published:
Indonesia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: C24729
Notes:
Retrieved September 16, 2006, 2 pages., Letter from the Institute to the Indonesian president condemning the murder of a journalist who had been investigating corruption activities involving an agricultural project for small farmers. Invites investigation and disclosure of findings.
Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility, Makati City, Philippines.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2005-05-04
Published:
Philippines
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: C25264
Notes:
Retrieved September 16, 2006, Center web site. 5 pages., Reports on the shooting of journalist Marlene Garcia Esparat for reporting about allegged malfeasances of local Department of Agriculture officials.
Beltran S., Luis Ramiro (author) and Fox de Cardona, Elizabeth (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1979
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14168
Notes:
Chapter 3 in K. Nordenstreng and H.I. Schiller, National sovereignty and international communication. Ablex Publishing Corporation, Norwood, New Jersey. 286 pages.
