by Mary Kendall Dixon | May 12, 2017 | Member Resources, The ByLine
The Andy Markwart Horizon Award, presented by the American Agricultural Editors’ Association’s Professional Improvement Foundation (PIF) and John Deere, is an annual award given to an AAEA member who embodies the youthful vigor, energy, passion, dedication and...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | May 12, 2017 | Photography, The ByLine
By Harlen Persinger, AAEA Freelancer Last fall, I was part of a 23-person team affiliated with AAEA that traveled to Cuba. This group came from diverse backgrounds representing a wide array of livestock and crop interests as well as regions around the country. This...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | May 12, 2017 | Member Resources, Professional Development, The ByLine
AAEA –the Agricultural Communicators Network believes it is vital to provide professional development and education opportunities for its younger members to attend the annual Ag Media Summit. Based on our recent survey of members, attending AMS is a major motivating...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | May 12, 2017 | Ag Media Summit, The ByLine
By JoAnn Alumbaugh, Farm Journal If you attended the Regional AAEA/LPC meeting in Ames, Iowa recently, you would have previewed one of the excellent speakers slated to speak at the Ag Media Summit this summer. Vicki Krueger has worked with The Poynter Institute...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | May 5, 2017 | The ByLine, Travel, What I Learned
By Jessie Scott, AAEA InfoExpo Chair “South African farming is not for sissies.” When I first heard that line from a farmer in Delmas, Gauteng, a northern province in South Africa, I chuckled at the bluntness of the line as well as the subtle insinuation that...
by Mary Kendall Dixon | May 5, 2017 | Ag Media Summit, The ByLine, Writing
By Steve Werblow, AAEA Freelancer We’ve all been there—staring at the screen with a whole lot of story to tell and a little space to tell it in. Frustrated by that challenge one bleak day, I had a thought that rocked me like a hurricane. Taylor Swift could tell...