By Laurie Bedord, Chair, Future Agricultural Communicators Have you considered hosting an intern but weren’t quite sure if it would be worth the time and effort? Rather than try to convince you that becoming a host for an AAEA Ag Communicators Network intern is a worthwhile endeavor, I’m going to let comments from recent participants in … Read More
Month: October 2020
October Podcast: Celebrating 100 Years
By Katie Navarra, AAEA Podcast Host The Ag Communicators Network is celebrating 100 years of serving the ag media industry. In this episode, AAEA President Gil Gullickson, and past presidents JoAnn Alumbaugh and Gregg Hillyer reminisced about their early days with the association. The trio highlighted several of AAEA’s greatest accomplishments and emphasized that good … Read More
Be Like John Wooden
By Gil Gullickson, 2019-2020 AAEA President, Successful Farming John Wooden could have basked in the afterglow following his UCLA Bruins capturing their fourth NCAA basketball championship in 1968. Instead, there he was, at a press conference in which the NBA’s Los Angeles Lakers announced they had acquired Wilt Chamberlain in a trade. Think of … Read More
AAEA Celebrates 100 Years
Association’s new moniker reflects change, challenge, for ag communicators By Mike Wilson, Farm Progress The Agricultural Communicators Network, aka the American Agricultural Editors’ Association, has been a conduit to help professional journalists and communicators share knowledge and camaraderie for 100 years now. The association has a lot to be proud of, and it all started … Read More
AMS 2020 Program Highlight: Freelancer 411 Panel
By Ag Media Summit This fabulous panel of speakers will be moderated by Katrina Huffstutler and includes Brooke Clay Taylor, Jamie Johansen, Paige Wallace Arnold and Crystal Cline. These freelance communicators will discuss pros, cons and best practices in this fast-paced panel. Whether you’re considering the jump to freelance or have done it for years, … Read More
Thoughts from AAEA Past President: Betsy Freese
By Betsy Freese, Successful Farming, 2004 AAEA President I’m moving to a new house after three decades in an old farmhouse, so I have been cleaning out my attic. I have several boxes of AAEA material up there, and when I was asked to write this column I started sorting through the folders. It’s hard … Read More
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