by Mary Kendall Dixon | Oct 5, 2018 | Ag Media Summit, Events, The ByLine
By Kurt Lawton, event co-chair The IFAJ/AMS 2019 Global Congress steering committee met Thursday, September 20, at the event’s DoubleTree Hilton hotel in Bloomington, Minnesota to continue planning this not-to-miss event. Working with my co-chair Carey Brown...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | Sep 27, 2018 | Events, Professional Development, The ByLine, Webinar, Writing
The Makings of a Great Writer Tuesday, October 2, 2018 11:00 a.m. CST What does it take to create that “winning” story? How do great writers gain inspiration for story ideas? What tricks do they use to overcome dreaded writer’s block? How is...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | Sep 20, 2018 | Ag Media Summit, The ByLine, What I Learned
Ag Media Summit 2018 can be summed up in one word: inspiring! As a first-time attendee, I came with expectations; but it was the things I didn’t expect that pushed the conference into the category of excellence. I expected Ag Media Summit’s convergence of ag...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | Sep 20, 2018 | The ByLine, Travel, What I Learned
By Greg Lamp, 2018 IFAJ stipend recipient By all accounts, Makandra is a small farm, really small. Yet every day as many as 25 workers, called clients, show up to hand tend 10 acres on the estate located on the outskirts of Ede, a municipality in central Netherlands...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | Sep 20, 2018 | Ag Media Summit, News, The ByLine
By Laurie Bedord, AAEA Future Agricultural Communicators Chair Established in 2012, the Dr. James F. Evans Scholarship was created to recognize an individual who has had a tremendous impact on the establishment and growth of agricultural communications...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | Sep 20, 2018 | Professional Development, The ByLine
By Kenna Rathai (mentor) and Rachel Lium (mentee) Editor’s note: We started a new mentor program last fall and wanted to catch up with a pair who have been on top of things from the start. Kenna Rathai has been in agency and freelancer roles for more than 20 years,...
