The Southern Baptist Convention elected its first black president this week.
Historic election for Southern Baptists
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Rubio's religious journey explored
Sen. Marco Rubio was in the news quite a bit yesterday. Part of it was that he released his new book. Part of it was that an old Charlie Crist campaign foe who now works for Romney allegedly told a reporter that Rubio wasn’t even being considered for the Veep slot. Another day in the fun, fun world of political reporting.
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Reporting on a "shadowy Nigerian Islamist group"
For some reason I’ve been fascinated with looking at how different media outlets report the same news. Sometimes what they choose to highlight, the angle they go with, the people they interview, etc., are all the same. Sometimes they’re quite different.
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Abortion violence: Why not talk to real pro-lifers?
Please be patient with me as I dig through lots of material that built up in my infamous GetReligion guilt folder. Here is a story from a few weeks ago that raises a very, very, very basic journalism question.
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Faith on obituary beat: Paul Vitello's shift at the NYTs
One of my first assignments during a newspaper internship in college was obituaries, fairly tedious writing with no byline for a much desired clip. I will never forget how my editor emphasized how people really do read them and if you get something wrong, family members, already distraught by the loved one’s death, will confront you pretty quickly. Pressure, much?
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Church policy of secrecy or confidentiality?
You may have read last week about a California jury awarding $28 million in damages to a Candace Conti, a woman who said the Jehovahâs Witnesses allowed an adult member of her congregation to molest her when she was a child.
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That Anglican timeline thing, again (with apologies)
I have been on the road for a week or more and, when I returned home, there was a huge stack of Baltimore Sun newspapers for me to triage. One of the first GetReligion-esque stories that I ran into concerned a local news event that the Sun has been ignoring for months (see previous GetReligion coverage here).
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All the news that's fit to blog
When newspapers began adding blogs to the traditional media mix, it opened up a whole new world for religion reporters who had all this content but only so much that could fit in print.
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Pod people: Who's evolving on immigration?
President Obama announced a shift on on Friday for how the government will handle immigrants who were brought to the United States by their parents, a decision setting off a chain of reactions from outrage to elation to apathy.
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