Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Arlington, Virginia.
Format:
News release
Publication Date:
2000-04-07
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: C25627
Notes:
Retrieved December 28, 2006, 2 pages., Involves an effort by an Associated Press reporter to get public records about an agriculture loan to a seafood firm.
Evans, Jim (author) and International Federation of Agricultural Journalists.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2008-03-15
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: C27353
Notes:
3 pages., Reports fatalities, arrests, harassment and other restrictions that journalists faced during 2007 in covering rural affairs throughout the world.
International: Zimmcomm New Media, Cantonment, Florida.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12106
Notes:
Online from ZimmComm News Media. 2 pages., A pioneer in agricultural uses of new social media expresses concern about FaceBook, Twitter, and YouTube having become political weapons. "Since the election, the level of censorship on all of the major social media platforms has just skyrocketed. Never in our wildest dreams did we ever think that freedom of speech and the press might be endangered in this country, but we do believe it is right now." FaceBook and Twitter platforms "are both essentially business platforms. Author reports a decision to put a temporary hold on ZimmComm business FaceBook accounts.
Collins, Ronald K.L. (author) and Center for Science in the Public Interest, Washington, D.C.
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
1998-02
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24431
Notes:
Retrieved July 7, 2006, From the Baltimore Sun (Maryland) via CSPI. 3 pages., In the interest of First Amendment protection, author says "it is essential that existing food-disparagement laws be rejected in the courts and legislatures of this land."
USA: American Agricultural Editors' Association (AAEA).
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 49 Document Number: D10719
Notes:
Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004 are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, 1 page., Adopted December 4, 1968 by the American Agricultural Editors' Association
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 166 Document Number: C27731
Notes:
Abstract available in CD and print formats. Full text available in paper format., 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. 22 pages.
Posted at http://www.agrimarketing.com, Results of three surveys - 1988, 1998 and 2008 - among AAEA members about advertiser influence on editorial content.
Via online issue. 4 pages., Reports the impact of internet communications in revealing a problem of infant milk being tainted with melamine, an industrial chemical illegally added.
Brief summary of comments prepared by Andrew W. Hopkins, University of Wisconsin, for the 1931 AAACE meeting, Corvallis, Oregon. Urges the license and maintenance of educational stations entirely independent of commercial control or direction. American Association of Agricultural College Editors.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: C24724
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Retrieved October 14, 2005, Via Science and Development Network. 4 pages., "A democratic dialogue over science-related issues is critical for modern societies. But providing reliable information in an accessible way is an essential prerequisite for this to occur." Author notes a worrying trend within much of the world's media whereby a traditional commitment to reporting facts is giving way to coverage on interpretations of fact (or "spin").
Khan, Rachel E. (author), Lee, Nathan J. (author), and Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2006
Published:
Philippines
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 192 Document Number: C23756
Notes:
Media Alerts 2006, CMFR Study on Slain Journalists from 2000-2005. 6 pages., Discusses the case of Marlene Esperat, a "well-known crusading provincial journalist," whose murder is believed to be associated with her expose of anomalies she discovered in the Department of Agriculture Region XII.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22525
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Agricultural Publishers Association Archives, Series No. 8/3/80, Box 5., Delivered to the Agricultural Editors' Association, Chicago, Illinois, May 16, 1922. Annual report, pp. 8-12., Examines the relationship between state farm papers and national farm papers/magazines.
Starr, Douglas Perret (author / Texas A&M University)
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2009-03
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 171 Document Number: C28812
Notes:
3 pages., Professor of agricultural communications and journalism at Texas A&M University describes current economic pressures on inews media in terms of risks to the role of an independent press in a democratic society. Cites seven things that should happen, for the good of all in the United States.
Miraldi, Robert (author) and Center for Science in the Public Interest, Washington, D.C.
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2006
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24428
Notes:
Retrieved July 7, 2006, 2 pages., Comments on the high cost Oprah Winfrey incurred in defending against the defamation suit by beef interests. "When an industry can haul a speaker into court for merely discussing food safety, the result, inevitably, is silence of the next speaker."
"The media contributed to the beginnings of a democratisation process when it acted as instrumental to forces opposed to an incumbent authoritative regime."
Online via keyword search of UI Library eCatalog., Article about legal actions involving two television reporters who were fired from a Florida station for refusing to broadcast "what they knew and documented to be false and distorted information about Monsanto's bovine growth hormone (BGH) - a genetically engineered product that has been linked to the proliferation of breast, prostate and colon cancer cells in humans." Includes their scripts, as well as the censored version.
Garfrerick, Beth H. (author / University of North Alabama)
Format:
Monograph
Publication Date:
2018
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 199 Document Number: D10069
Notes:
112 pages., Manuscript from author involving dissertation research., This monograph addresses the history of the community weekly newspaper in the United States throughout the twentieth century.
