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...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | Aug 28, 2017 | Awards, Photography, The ByLine, What I Learned
By Jim Patrico, AAEA Awards Co-Chair Writer of the Year Joe Link and I share some history. We both studied photojournalism under Angus McDougall at the University of Missouri, we both worked for Larry Harper at The Missouri Ruralist magazine, and we both worked...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | Aug 28, 2017 | The ByLine, What I Learned
By Holly Spangler, AAEA The Byline Editor Inexplicably, it’s September 2017, which means AAEA has marked an entire year with our new management company, ASG – and a year with outstanding staff members Samantha Kilgore and Courtney Jackson. We decided to take...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | Aug 17, 2017 | The ByLine, Travel, What I Learned
By Amy Roady, Membership Committee Chair When I look back at my time in South Africa during the 2017 IFAJ Congress many things stand out. The scene I keep going back to is Kurt Lawton, editor of Corn and Soybean Digest, and I both standing in the middle of corn...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | Aug 16, 2017 | Professional Development, The ByLine, What I Learned
By Michaela Simcoe, AAEA Intern, South Dakota State University My name is Michaela Simcoe and I live in Elk River, Minnesota. I am currently studying agricultural communications with minors in animal science and youth and community work at South Dakota...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | Aug 10, 2017 | Professional Development, The ByLine, What I Learned, Writing
By Emily Berger, AAEA Intern, Texas A&M University One year ago, I was sitting in a poultry barn as my life plans crumbled around me. The clucking of hundreds of hens would normally make me feel at home, but after three months of interning, I still felt...