So tmatt kicked off the GetReligion ninth anniversary celebration over the weekend.
Nah-nah-nah-nah: Navel-gazing at ninth anniversary
Please respect our Commenting Policy
GetReligion turns nine; Newsweek sort of vanishes
Nine years ago today, the Rt. Rev. Douglas LeBlanc clicked a mouse and GetReligion went live. As I have noted before, I actually wrote the “What we do, why we do it” post on Feb. 1, 2004, but the site opened its cyber-doors the next day, on Feb. 2, 2004.
Please respect our Commenting Policy
Megan Fox, glossolalia and Associated Press style (you read that right)
The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law is a lot of things and it fills a lot of roles. With good cause, thousands of media professionals call it the bible of mainstream journalism. However, this omnipresent spiral volume doesn’t answer a whole lot of complex questions that scribes will encounter trying to cover life on the modern religion beat.
Please respect our Commenting Policy
WWROD: Why do Episcopalians get so much ink?
That “religion guy” — Richard Ostling, formerly of Time and AP — has a post up right now that will be of interest to anyone who has ever followed mainstream religion-news coverage in North America for, oh, more than a week. Here’s the link to the full post over at “Religion Q&A: The Ridgewood Religion Guy answers your questions.â
Please respect our Commenting Policy
How to write a bland story about the March For Life
As expected, the journalists at The Washington Post were pretty careful with their coverage of this year’s March For Life. As I wrote the other day, in a challenge to GetReligion readers:
Please respect our Commenting Policy
Time for the "March for Life" media debate (updated)
It’s that time again — time for the annual debate about media bias in mainstream press coverage of the annual March For Life.
Please respect our Commenting Policy
Scared 'journalist' hides in a church, lives to write about it
A few weeks ago, a Twitter post from Tim Townsend, the award-winning religion writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, caught my attention.
Please respect our Commenting Policy
WWROD: Faith and those news stories about civil rights
It’s been a few weeks — with Christmas season travel and all — since your GetReligionistas checked in with veteran religion-beat writer Richard Ostling and his new Patheos weblog, Religion Q&A: The Ridgewood Religion Guy answers your questions.â
Please respect our Commenting Policy
Hey Telegraph editors: Where's the Catholic left?
One thing is certain, the facts boldly stated in the headline at The Telegraph are enough to grab readers from the get-go.
Please respect our Commenting Policy