by AgCommNetwork | Nov 8, 2024 | AAEA News, Photography, Professional Development, The ByLine, Travel, Uncategorized
By Bill Spiegel, Byline editor Longtime ACN member Jim Patrico revisits some of the stories from his stellar career in a new book, “Dispatches from Farm Country: A Journalist’s decadeslong search for the soul of rural American in a changing world”. Patrico has earned...
by AgCommNetwork | Oct 10, 2024 | Awards, News, Photography, Professional Development, The ByLine, What I Learned
By Steve Werblow, Owner of Steve Werblow Communications Want to know how to become the next Photo of the Year recipient? We asked this year’s winner, Steve Werblow of The Furrow, what his photography secrets are, how he won the awards this year, and what impact it has...
by Ashlyn Rochester | May 9, 2024 | Digital Media, Member Resources, PR/Marketing, Professional Development, The ByLine, Webinar, What I Learned
By Ashlyn Rochester, ACN Communications Specialist On May 1st, four speakers and one moderator logged into Zoom to tell ACN members how public relations professionals and journalists can work together successfully and shared their tips and tricks. Ann Marie Ames, ACN...
by AgCommNetwork | Feb 9, 2024 | Freelance, Member Resources, Professional Development, What I Learned, Writing
By Bill Spiegel, Byline Editor More seasoned members of this group will recall the days when editors used a “cassette recorder” to record interviews. Transcribing these cassettes was painstaking and arguably the worst part of agricultural communications. When I was...
by Ashlyn Rochester | Feb 9, 2024 | Events, Professional Development, The ByLine, What I Learned
By Ashlyn Rochester, ACN Communications Specialist In honor of Black History Month and injunction with our new DEI initiative, we are celebrating and sharing five Black innovators in agriculture. Henry Blair Blair (1807-1860) was an African American inventor who...
by AgCommNetwork | Feb 9, 2024 | AAEA News, Awards, Events, Member Resources, News, Professional Development, The ByLine, Travel
By Katie Knapp, International Committee Chair and ACN Board Member Would you like to go to Switzerland this summer, learn more about agriculture from a global perspective, AND level up your leadership skills? If so and you are 35 or younger as of December 31, 2024,...