by Mary Kendall Dixon | Oct 3, 2017 | Ag Media Summit, Awards, What I Learned
By Jessie Scott, Sponsorship Chair During my first Commodity Classic, I went to a client dinner where I was sandwiched between Mike Wilson and Jeff Caldwell. I’d only been working for Successful Farming magazine for a few months at the time, so that combination...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | Sep 22, 2017 | Ag Media Summit, The ByLine, What I Learned
By Shelby Mettlen, Angus Media The field of agricultural communications is comprised of a small group of very talented individuals –– individuals with diverse backgrounds and one thing in common: passion for agriculture. Perhaps the greatest thing about our...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | Sep 15, 2017 | Ag Media Summit, Professional Development, The ByLine
By Marlee Moore, Alabama Farmers Federation Ask a writer to pen a story, however brief, and our mind races with lead ideas ranging from the cliché to the passé to the downright terrible. But then the juices get flowing and voila. You’ve done it. A...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | Sep 15, 2017 | Ag Media Summit, The ByLine
By Kasey Brown, Angus Media Ag journalism is a people business. Ag Media Summit reminds us of this each year. We all use our skills to meet many deadlines, but if there weren’t a people aspect to journalism, we wouldn’t tell very good stories, would we? To this...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | Sep 7, 2017 | Ag Media Summit, The ByLine, What I Learned
By Ann Hess, Carbon Media Group It’s hard to believe it’s already been a month since we last gathered together in the majestic mountains of Snowbird, Utah. This year’s Ag Media Summit was my fifth, but my first as a working journalist. And I must say I didn’t...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | Aug 28, 2017 | Ag Media Summit, Professional Development, The ByLine, What I Learned
By Anna McConnell, Meredith Agrimedia Interviewing sources is always a high-stakes situation. Whether you get the chattiest grower in the U.S. or the farmer who would rather you not come out and poke around his/her operation, your demeanor as a journalist and...