by AgCommNetwork | Jul 8, 2025 | ACN News, News, The ByLine
Rick Mooney with his newborn granddaughter, Leah, in 2021. Rick passed away June 24. Rick Mooney, a longtime ACN member and past associate editor of Missouri Ruralist and Farm Journal magazines, died at his home in Spooner, Wisconsin June 24. Mooney was a native of...
by AgCommNetwork | May 8, 2025 | Awards, News, The ByLine
By Katie Knapp, ACN Board Member and International Committee Chair Since 2005, the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ) and Alltech have partnered to support the Young Leaders in Agricultural Journalism Award that recognizes the leadership...
by AgCommNetwork | Apr 11, 2025 | Awards, News, The ByLine, Uncategorized
By Bill Spiegel, Byline Editor Well, the headline isn’t completely true. Yes, the deadline is April 25, but technically, award submissions will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. on Friday, May 2. The catch is: a 20% late fee applies to those entries. Here are the...
by AgCommNetwork | Jan 10, 2025 | News, The ByLine
By Joel Reichenberger, member, ACN Board of Directors Last year, 2024, will always be “the year of the move” in my family, as we left Steamboat Springs, Colorado for a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania suburb. Anyone who’s talked to or been on a call with me in the last year...
by AgCommNetwork | Jan 10, 2025 | News, The ByLine
By Bill Spiegel Like many kids growing up on a farm, Courtney Leeper Girgis knew she wanted to find a career centered around agriculture. But she didn’t know about agricultural communications until she became involved in FFA in high school. As a sophomore at Trenton...
by AgCommNetwork | Jan 10, 2025 | Events, News, The ByLine, Travel
By Owen Roberts Global tourism is on track to recover to pre-pandemic levels. That’s great news to people like Francisco Betti, Head of the Global Industries team at the World Economic Forum. At a forum meeting last May, he gushed about this encouraging trend and its...
