Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23753
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Via The Hoot, Media South Asia. 3 pages., "Precaution was necessary, not scare-mongering. So what was the masked television reporter doing in and around Navapur hamlets and hospitals?"
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23813
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E-Media Tidbits via Poynteronline. 1 page, Cites a rural newspaper editor who suggests: "As small papers concentrate their energy from print to digital, I think we are cutting off our collective noses to spite the face of community journalism - and not fighting for the attention of readers."
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
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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.
Via LexisNexis Academic, Africa News. 2 pages., Author describes being insulted and possibly threatened by an agricultural company that disagreed with an article published.
Newsplex at the University of South Carolina., Author argues that the only things about convergence that are new are some terms and the fact that duties once the prerogative of the news editor and the photographer and techniques used in newspapers and magazines now are relegated to the news reporter.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 150 Document Number: C24170
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International Journalists' Network. 1 page., Describes the origination of Sadiq News, a newsletter that covers freedom of expression issues for rural Pakistan journalists.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 150 Document Number: C24171
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International Journalists' Network. 1 page., "A study analyzing the coverage of five Guatemalan newspapers from 2001 to 2005 suggests a clear lack of reporting about rural areas."
Retrieved January 28, 2007, 25 pages., Gaunle refers to something associated with a village. Deurali is a public place in the village, where people congregate. This newspaper is published by a non-governmental organization, Rural Development Palpa. It "is used as a platform for local leaders and villagers to express what is important to them rather than being a channel for the government or political elite to push their agenda."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26970
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Pages 19-34 in Jon Entine (ed.), Let them eat precaution: how politics is undermining the genetic revolution in agriculture, AEI Press, Washington, D.C. 203 pages., Cites results of research among worldwide opinion leaders representing the food industry and national governments.
International Center for Journalism, Washington, D.C.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2006
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25133
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Retrieved September 27, 2006, at http://www.ijnet.org/Director.aspx?P=Training&ID=25004&LID=1&Prn=Y, International Journalists' Network. 1 page.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08344
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Pages 185-198 in Steve May, Case studies in organizational communication: ethical perspectives and practices. Sage Publications, Inc., Thousand Oaks, California. 402 pages.
3 pages., Though news coverage of illegal immigration often lacks the essential voices and images of migrant workers, journalists at the Sacramento Bee included both.
USA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: C24613
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Retrieved August 2, 2006, Chapter 6 of a 269-page guide. 8 pages., Resources for media about threats involving international contamination of food products, risks from foodborne illnesses, and new systems for information sharing and reporting.
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
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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.
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
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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."
Content analysis of newspaper and television coverage provides an overview, for the first time, of the frequency, depth and range of coverage of agricultural issues in the Swiss media in 2004. Authors observe that "it may be concluded that media coverage of farming issues is somewhat superficial."
Swedish journalist Gunilla Ander is recognized by the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists for winning the new international Star Prize writing contest for the best on-farm production story. Title: "Keith Holmes wants to sell milk to Europe."
Cites results of an IFAJ survey indicating the involvement of women in agricultural journalism, internationally, and participation of agricultural public relations professionals and communicators as well as agricultural journalists.
Solomon, Norman (author) and Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, New York City, New York.
Format:
Commentary
Publication Date:
2005-11-23
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: C24434
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Retrieved July 7, 2006, Media Beat. 2 pages., "Today, some people have bountiful tables while others have very little. On the rhetorical surface, Thanksgiving marks a time of appreciation. But meanwhile, most of all, media outlets encourage us to buy - and forget."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23811
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"Friday Edition" via Poynteronline. 2 pages., Reports on coverage by a National Public Radio reporter of fraudulent claims by crop producers against the federal crop insurance program.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 182 Document Number: C36925
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Via SciDev.net. 2 pages., Director of the non-profit media organisation, TVE Asia Pacific, argues that "the media and development organizations are currently part of the problem."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23462
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International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State. 14 pages., Identifies and summarizes nearly 50 news articles about this threat in various countries and regions.
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."
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").
Author reports on posting more than 50 articles with pictures, audio and video from the 2005 Congress of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists in Switzerland. This was the organization's first blog coverage.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 157 Document Number: C25525
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Retrieved February 7, 2007, Presented at the Newspapers and Community-Building Symposium XI co-sponsored by the Huck Boyd National Center for Community Media at Kansas State University and the National Newspaper Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 29-30, 2005. 23 pages.
Aubrun, Axel (author), Brown, Andrew (author), and Grady, Joseph (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2005-09-06
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27584
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Posted at http://www.wkkf.org, Pages 67-88 in Perceptions of the U.S. food system: what and how Americans think about their food. W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, Michigan. 88 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 146 Document Number: C23031
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Presented at the 2005 Congress of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists,Thun, Switzerland, August 31-September 4, 2005. 3 pages., Author notes that coverage of agriculture is changing in the daily and weekly newspapers of Switzerland. Suggests that farmers are going to have to learn to show more solidarity with urban populations, especially as they demand that other people show solidarity with them.
Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism at the Ohio State University, Columbia.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2005-09
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 158 Document Number: C25725
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3 pages., "Rural journalists from six states spent two days in Somerset, Kentucky in September 2005 learning how to more effectively cover complex federal and state bureaucracies and legislatures."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23420
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From the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, University of Kentucky, Lexington. 2 pages., Report on discussion during a session of the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication about the hub-to-spoke news production system used by Clear Channel Communications in radio programming.
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
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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: 144 Document Number: C22646
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Presented at the Agricultural Media Summit, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 31, 2005., Author is World President of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists and Chief Executive Officer of IFP Media, which publishes the Irish Farmers Monthly and 30 other periodicals. Examines the relationship between advertising and editorial content, and suggests that integrity and impartial editorial content are "key to maintaining our product standard to ever increasingly discerning audiences."
Gupta, Shangon Das (author) and Communication for Development and Learning, Bangalore, India.
Format:
Article
Publication Date:
2005-07-29
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 148 Document Number: C23730
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The Hoot, Media South Asia. 3 pages., "Water journalism is a new concept in advocacy, bringing in the media as a key partner in the debate on issues of water scarcity, distribution, equity and ownership." Discusses the possible levels of operation for water journalism, citing examples.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C22592
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Posted at: http://www.foodproductiondaily.com/news/printNewsBis.asp?id=61508, Online from foodproductiondaily.com 3 pages., Urges food industry not to dismiss studies that seem "scientifically flawed." "It is simply not good enough - ever - to fall back on seeing only what we want to see." The process should not be driven by reports in mass media.
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."
Miljkovic, Dragan (author) and Mostad, Daniel (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2005-07
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: D06760
Notes:
Paper presented at the American Agricultural Economics Association annual meeting, Providence, Rhode Island, July 24-27, 2005. 24 pages., Found that media can trigger changes in diets.
Summarizes suggestions from a Toronto newspaper news editor about ways in which the agriculture sector can serve the information needs of mass media more effectively.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C23819
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Reviewed 3/13/2006 at http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=83144, Via Poynteronline. 8 pages, Discusses values and methods of computer assisted reporting (CAR) programs at newspapers. Cites an example involving an investigative series, "Boss Hog, North Carolina pork revolution." Reporters used CAR to enrich some stories about links between Murphy Farms and state policies involving sewage disposition regulations on hog farms.
