"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.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36888
Notes:
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."
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.
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.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 117 Document Number: C12865
Notes:
Chapter 13 in Anjan Kumar Banerji (ed.), Communication and development. Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. 135 pages.
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.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C17237
Notes:
Pages 185-233 in Syed A. Rahim and John Middleton (eds.), Perspectives in communication policy and planning. Communication Monographs No. 3. East-West Center, East-West Communication Institute, Honolulu, Hawaii. 363 pages
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
Notes:
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.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C14150
Notes:
This book is a product of the 9th Biennial Conference of the African Council for Communication Education at Accra, Ghana, October 18-21, 1994., Chapter 9 in Charles Okigbo (ed.), Media and sustainable development. African Council for Communication Education, Nairobi, Kenya. 506 pages.
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.
Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility, Makati City, Philippines.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2006-02-14
Published:
Philippines
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: C25265
Notes:
Retrieved September 16, 2006, Center web site. 4 pages., Reports on the shooting of journalist Marlene Garcia Esparat for reporting about alleged malfeasances of local Department of Agriculture officials.
Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility, Makati City, Philippines.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2006-10-05
Published:
Philippines
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: C25266
Notes:
Retrieved January 15, 2007, Center web site. 3 pages., Update on the 2005 shooting of journalist Marlene Garcia Esparat for reporting about alleged malfeasances of local Department of Agriculture officials.
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.
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."
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
Notes:
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.
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
Notes:
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: 151 Document Number: C24442
Notes:
Retrieved July 6, 2006, International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State, via allAfrica.com. 2 pages., "Web site allAfrica.com is embodiment of growing free press in Africa."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: C24724
Notes:
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").
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.
Evans, Jim (author) and Agricultural Communications Program, College of Media and College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2013-04
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 189 Document Number: D01614
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.
