AGJR  105
Introduction to Agricultural Communications

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Week #: 5
 Agriculture's View
Learning Objectives:
Examine the early journalist's point of view
 Examine the development of audiences for information about agriculture.
 Describe historical agricultural publications
Instructional
Activities:

Download the PowerPoint Interactive Study Guides  

  The Country Weekly
 Garrett Wilkerson's South Korea presentation
 
 Visit Texas A&M Study Abroad Program Web site
Benjamin A Gilman Scholarship Program

If you have specific questions about Garrett's experience, please feel free to e-mail him using the following link Garrett Wilkerson
  
Assignments:

Topics related to agriculture are covered by many media sources. Agricultural communicators must keep current with how issues are being covered by other media sources. Each student must find three sources of media coverage by popular press (radio, tv, news, magazines, e-zines) media, not agricultural publications or media  of a current (within the last 3 years) agricultural topic. Evaluate how the topic was covered in a 500-word essay. The evaluation should discuss

1.      the number and types of sources used for information,

2.      the balance or lack thereof in the story,

3.      what images, if any, were associated with the story,

4.      where was the story placed in the medium.

5.      how might this story be different in an agricultural media, and

6.      how the story could be improved.

  1. Turn this in at the beginning of class on October 12.

Assignment Information and Grading Expectations are available here.
 

If any of the above information is incorrect, or needs to be updated, contact Dr. Tracy A. Rutherford.

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