Where did you go to college? I went to Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Arizona State University and The Media School at Indiana University. What is your job title and how long have you worked there? I am the Director of Content for Fastline Media Group and the host of Fastline … Read More
Month: August 2020
What Every Website Needs (And Usually Overlooks)
By Brittany Unterweger, Charleston | Orwig The hope of every website: “If you build it, they will come.” The painful reality for all too many: “If you don’t build it with search engine optimization (SEO) and usability in mind, they may not come—or stay very long if they do.” While neither is as sexy as … Read More
Madelyn Main Selected as the Recipient of the 2020 Dr. James Evans Scholarship.
By Laurie Bedord, Chair, Future Ag Communicators Committee John F. Kennedy once said, “We must do all that we can to give our children the best in education and social upbringing for while they are the youth of today, they shall be the leaders of tomorrow.” Nurturing and investing in our youth are the goals … Read More
IFAJ Panel Shares Global Perspectives on Freedom of the Press
By Jessica Wesson, AAEA 2020 Editorial Intern In the last five years, there have been 306 journalists murdered in connection to their work. Iraq, Syria, Mexico and Afghanistan have held the top spots for the largest number of journalists killed in a single year. Execution is not the only pressure that journalists face worldwide. Harassment, … Read More
How the Agricultural Communications Summit Went Virtual
By Gil Gullickson, 2019-2020 AAEA/ACN president The Rev. Nadia Bolz-Weber isn’t like Pastor Gilbertson or Pastor Bailey or any other Lutheran minister I knew while growing up in northeastern South Dakota. She’s different. Heavily tattooed and a recovering alcoholic, the ordained Evangelical Lutheran Church in America pastor reaches souls in a way that would have … Read More
Thoughts from AAEA Past President: Del Deterling
By Del Deterling, 1978 AAEA President I grew up on a small cotton and grain farm in central Texas. I picked many a pound of cotton by hand, giving me all the incentive, I needed to seek a higher education. At Schulenburg High School, I enrolled in vo-ag and became deeply involved with FFA, showing … Read More