The American Agricultural Editors\u2019 Association is now online with a new web site:\u00a0 www.ageditors.com.\u00a0 It features news, job opportunities, calendars of events and other information for members and nonmembers.<\/p>\n
Is the title of a new mini-directory published by the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists.\u00a0 The booklet\u00a0 identifies agricultural journalism organizations and\u00a0 contacts in each of 27 member countries.\u00a0 Requests to Steve Cain at\u00a0cain@ecn.purdue.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n The 1998 Congress of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists is scheduled for July 3-8 in Bogensee, Germany.\u00a0 For information, e-mail:\u00a0hamburg@cpo-hanser.de<\/a><\/p>\n Members of the Agricultural Relations Council (ARC), an organization of public relations professionals in the U.S., voted recently to affiliate with the National Agri-Marketing Association.\u00a0 ARC will remain as a separate council.\u00a0 It will continue to operate with a board of directors, decide where and when to hold meetings, publish a newsletter, maintain an ARC Foundation and sponsor an annual internship program.\u00a0 NAMA will serve as administrative center for ARC and provide other resources.\u00a0 Information: Paul Weller at\u00a0arconline@aol.com<\/a><\/p>\n To the Agricultural Communications Documentation Center by Professor Harold Guither, agricultural policy specialist at the University of Illinois:<\/p>\n In a recent column for the ByLine Newsletter of American Agricultural Editors\u2019 Association, agricultural writer Fred Myers describes several measures of enduring magazines:<\/p>\n \u201cMagazines endure because they never lose sight of why they exist.\u00a0 That\u2019s why they become worthy institutions in the minds of their readers. Thanks to Owen Roberts, past president of the Canadian Farm Writers\u2019 Federation for this interesting list.\u00a0 He offered it during a professional development presentation to Farm Focus journalists in Atlantic Canada, May 1998.<\/p>\n Change your bookmark\u00a0<\/b>for this web site.\u00a0 The new URL for the Agricultural Communications Documentation Center is:<\/p>\n <web.aces.uiuc.edu\/agcomdb\/docctr.html<\/a>><\/p>\n Please let us know if we can help you find information and\/or if you can suggest documents that we might add to this collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New AAEA web site. The American Agricultural Editors\u2019 Association is now online with a new web site:\u00a0 www.ageditors.com.\u00a0 It features news, job opportunities, calendars of events and other information for members and nonmembers. \u201cContacts for agricultural journalists in the world\u201d Is the title of a new mini-directory published by the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acdc_news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11286"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11289,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11286\/revisions\/11289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/funkaces\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIFAJ Congress meets in Germany.\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
\n<\/a>Two professional organizations affiliate<\/b>.<\/h3>\n
\n<\/a>Here are samples of documents contributed recently\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
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\n<\/a>The measure of an enduring magazine?\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
\nMagazines endure because they change with their readers\u2019 interests as both they and their readers pursue the American dream.
\n\u201cFinally, magazines endure because their staff members have vision and talent and care deeply about the mark they are leaving on the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Farm writing\u2019s Top 10 generic leads.\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n
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\n<\/a>A reminder: <\/b><\/h3>\n
\n<\/a>Best regards and good searching.\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n