Former TV news reporter Prof. Ricky Telg, an agricultural communications and education professor from the University of Florida, co-teaches agricultural communications theory in our online diploma in agricultural communications. Ricky was in Guelph in March. He met with the present cohort, and shot video footage at the Ontario AgriCentre media centre of participants Kathie MacDonald, Christine Schoonderwoerd, Terry Stevenson and Sarah Van Engelen, discussing various aspects of the program. The videos will be posted on the program website. Thanks to Ricky and his son Brendon, editor extraordinaire, for going the extra mile (and then some) and helping promote the program.
OWEN ROBERTS
Owen Roberts is an agricultural journalist and communications instructor based in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He is a trustee on the Global Foundation for Agricultural Journalism and an associate editor (communications) for the Journal of Agromedicine. Previously, Owen was president of the International Forum for Agricultural Journalists, an agricultural communications faculty member at the University of Illinois, and research communications director at the University of Guelph. His programs and research papers have been recognized through awards from the Journal of Applied Communications, the National Agri-Marketing Association, the Association for Communications Excellence and the Canadian Farm Writers' Federation.