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What NOT to teach a metro reporting intern
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Associated Press: Accused corpse-stealer is 'religious'
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A murdered child, a guilty teen, 'Dexter' and a very real hell
One of the big ideas of this website, oft repeated in a variety of wordings, is that if journalists want to understand real events in the real lives of real people in the real world, then — more often than not — they are going have to wrestle with very real religious issues. At some point, journalists have to take religion seriously and let people talk about the religious beliefs that help shape their actions in life.
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Got news? Mother Jones on ghosts in FBI's Hasan probe
Your GetReligionistas normally do not spend much time looking at ideological media outlets, such as National Review or Mother Jones.
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Where is the BBC's coverage of what's happening in Egypt?
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Cutting 'the Rev.' out of a key Ravens executive's work
If you number yourself among the millions and millions of Americans who follow the National Football League, then you know that this coming week is one of the most interesting, important and traumatic times of the year. It’s the time when “The Turk” walks the hallways at NFL camps, delivering the horrible news to players that they have been cut from the final rosters that teams take into the new season.
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Hurrah: Learning more about Antoinette Tuff's religion
The other day I was reading an obituary of Tom Christian, descendent of the Bounty mutineer. It was in the New York Times and written by my very favorite obituary writer, Margalit Fox.
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The Boston Globe shows how to write about church planters
Earlier this month I called a story about a church planter in Brooklyn the worst religion story of the year. I don’t like to write harsh critiques (really, I don’t) but it’s frustrating to have an interesting story mangled by shoddy reporting. While reading that terrible Daily News piece I wondered, “What could this article have done right?â
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After Hasan trial: Spot big religion ghost in this story
The military trial of Maj. Nidal Hasan was never — as a journalism story — really about whether or not he was guilty of massacring his unarmed colleagues at Ft. Hood, Texas. With Nasan representing himself and openly discussing his role as the gunman, the key issues in the trial were linked to his own explanation of his faith-driven motives and the degree to which his superiors knew of his convictions in the months before his rampage.
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