The George W. Bush administration was often accused of, among other things, muzzling or ignoring science. That criticism was based in part on the then-U.S. president's order — twice upheld — to ban federal...
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Read MoreOur friends at the Guild of Agricultural Journalists in the UK have elected a new chairman, Nick Bond, who is profiled in a story on the guild's website here. Nick is well known to International Federation of Agricultural...
Read MoreCheck here for a story from the latest edition of IFAJ News — a publication deftly edited by Australian journalist Liz Harfull — about the first graduates from the University of Guelph agricultural communications...
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Owen Roberts is a faculty member in the Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communications program at the University of Illinois. As an agricultural journalist, he is the past president of the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists and a lifetime achievement award recipient from the Canadian Farm Writers' Federation. His programs and research papers have been recognized nationally and internationally through awards from the Journal of Applied Communications, the National Agri-Marketing Association, the Association for Communications Excellence, and others.