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Links
Religion Newswriters Association
A nonprofit trade association founded to advance the professional standards of religion reporting in the secular press as well as to create a support network for religion reporters, RNA strives to help journalists cover
religion with accuracy, balance and insight.
ReligionLink
More than 5,000 journalists receive this free weekly reporting resource, which includes tips on significant stories in religion, plus links to national and regional sources.
Religion Stylebook & Glossary
This new stylebook is a free service of Religion Newswriters.
Adherents.com and Association of Religion Data Archives
These sites specialize in statistics on religion.
Journalism.org
This Web portal, the online home of Project
for Excellence in Journalism and the Committee
of Concerned Journalists, provides tools,
research and other resources for both journalists
and citizens interested in the news media.
Pew
Research Center for the People and the Press
The Center for the People and the Press
conducts national surveys that measure attitudes
toward the press, politics and public policy
issues.
Religion
and Media Interest Group
An Interest Group of the Association for
Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), the group
encourages scholarly study of media
and religion to better understand mass communication.
Religion
News Service
The subscription-based Religion News Service
bills itself as "the only secular news and
photo service devoted to unbiased coverage
of religion and ethics—exclusively."
ReligionSource
A free service of the American Academy of
Religion, ReligionSource has a database of more than 5,000 scholars on religion created for journalists and searchable by name, topic or state. It helps journalists
locate scholars with expertise in more than
1,000 categories.
Center for Religion and Media
The Center for Religion and Media at New York University aims to stimulate innovative research and teaching in the interdisciplinary study of religion. The Center’s goal is to develop and broaden interdisciplinary and cross-cultural scholarship and public knowledge of religion and media at New York University.
Resource
Center for Media, Religion and Culture
The Resource Center at the University of
Colorado is an interdisciplinary research
team focused on the intersection of religious
and media-related practices in the everyday
lives of contemporary adults and their families.
The
Revealer
The Revealer, a daily review of religion
and the press, is a publication of the New
York University Department of Journalism
and NYU's Center for Religion and Media.
The Pew Forum
Now under the umbrella of The Pew Research Center, the Forum focuses on national public policy and legal issues. The site includes Pew Research Center surveys on religion, lengthy backgrounders, transcripts from events and issues summaries.
University
of Missouri School of Journalism
Founded in 1908, MU's School of Journalism
is the oldest and one of the most highly
regarded journalism schools in the world. The Center on Religion & the Professions, affiliated with the School of Journalism, is the nation's only center offering newspapers audience/market research services for religion news, content audits of religion news, and college-level curriculum development in religion and journalism.
USC Knight Chair in Media and Religion Resources
From the site: "Our goal is to serve as a resource for journalists, including journalism educators and students seeking new models for covering politics, science, sex and gender among other key issues for the 21st century."
Readings
Books
Judith M. Buddenbaum, Reporting News About Religion: An Introduction
for Journalists (Ames: Iowa State University
Press, 1998).
Judith M. Buddenbaum and Debra L. Mason, eds., Readings
on Religion as News (Ames: Iowa State
University Press, 2000).
Lynn Schofield
Clark, From Angels to Aliens: Teenagers,
the Media, and the Supernatural (Oxford;
New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).
John Dart, Deities and Deadlines: A Primer on Religion
News Coverage (Nashville: First Amendment
Center, 1998).
Tona J. Hangen, Redeeming the Dial: Radio, Religion,
and Popular Culture in America (Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
2002).
Stewart M.
Hoover, Religion in the News: Faith
and Journalism in American Public Discourse (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications,
1998).
Stewart M.
Hoover and Lynn Schofield Clark,
eds., Practicing Religion in the
Age of the Media (New York: Columbia
University Press, 2002).
Benjamin J.
Hubbard, ed., Reporting Religion:
Facts and Faith (Sonoma, Calif.: Polebridge
Press, 1990).
Martin E. Marty and others, The Religious Press in America (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1972).
David Paul
Nord, The Evangelical Origins of
Mass Media in America, 1815-1835 (Columbia,
S.C.: Association for Education in Journalism
and Mass Communication, 1984).
Marvin N. Olasky, Prodigal Press: The Anti-Christian Bias
of American News Media (Westchester,
Ill.: Crossway Books, 1988).
Marvin N. Olasky, Telling the Truth: How to Revitalize
Christian Journalism (Wheaton, Ill.:
Crossway Books, 1996).
William Proctor, The Gospel According to the New York
Times: How the World's Most Powerful News
Organization Shapes Your Mind and Values (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers,
2000).
John Schmalzbauer, People of Faith: Religious Conviction
in American Journalism and Higher Education (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003).
Mark Silk, Unsecular Media: Making News of Religion
in America (Urbana: University of Illinois
Press, 1995).
William David
Sloan, ed., Media and Religion in
American History (Northport, Alabama:
Vision Press, 2000).
Daniel A. Stout and Judith M. Buddenbaum, eds., Religion
and Mass Media: Audiences and Adaptations (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications,
1996).
Doug Underwood, From Yahweh to Yahoo!: The Religious
Roots of the Secular Press (Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 2002).
See more ideas of how religion
impacts journalism here.
See recent abstracts
about religion and journalism here.
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