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2013-09-23T20:59:15-04:00

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Triumph of the stringer in the Nairobi massacre coverage

Last updated on: September 23, 2013 at 8:59 pm By geoconger

African reporters are coming into their own with the stories coming out of Kenya this weekend. If you step back from the reports on the Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi — now entering its third day as of the writing of this post — and look not at the content of the news, but how it is being presented, you can see examples the changes taking place in journalism. Advances in technology, newspaper and network business models, and the worldviews... Read more

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2013-09-22T14:56:14-04:00

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Terrorists shred faithful at generic Pakistani church

Last updated on: September 22, 2013 at 2:56 pm By tmatt

Yesterday was Kenya and, of course, the killing there isn’t over yet. Today, there is another blast of a deadly form of Jihad — this time in Pakistan. Here is the top of an early, but quite complete, New York Times report: PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide attack on a historic Christian church in northwestern Pakistan killed at least 78 people on Sunday in one of the deadliest attacks on the Christian minority in Pakistan in years. The attack occurred... Read more

2013-09-22T15:01:41-04:00

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Pod people: Religion and mass shootings

Last updated on: September 22, 2013 at 3:01 pm By mollie

The Crossroads podcast this week was devoted to discussion of covering shootings. And in the time since the horrible shooting in Washington, D.C., took place, we now have reports of another horrific mass shooting in Kenya. There is some amazing journalism being done as this massacre unfolds. I’d recommend reading this New York Times interview of Tyler Hicks, a photographer who ran into the mall as thousands fled. The pictures that accompany the piece will make you gasp and cry,... Read more

2013-09-21T17:10:00-04:00

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Religious facts in the slaughter in upscale Nairobi mall

Last updated on: September 21, 2013 at 5:10 pm By tmatt

Based on the mainstream media reports pouring out of Kenya, it’s clear that the terrorist attacks on the high-end Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi had a lot to do with religion. CBS News even managed to get one of the most gripping religious details into its lede: Gunmen threw grenades, fired automatic weapons and targeted non-Muslims at the upscale Westgate mall in Kenya’s capital on Saturday, killing at least 30 people and wounding dozens more, a Kenya Red Cross official... Read more

2013-09-23T09:22:23-04:00

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The ‘exceptional importance’ of the Hobby Lobby case

Last updated on: September 23, 2013 at 9:22 am By Mark Kellner

It’s no surprise that the “Hobby Lobby” case is in the news. The valid headlines this week are that this religious-liberty case is on the doorstep of the U.S. Supreme Court. The Hobby Lobby craft-store chain is owned by the evangelical Christian Green family of Oklahoma, and the family is seeking an exemption from the Health and Human Services mandate requiring employer payments for contraceptives — including those that induce abortions. Hobby Lobby is a national chain, and the Green... Read more

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2013-09-20T13:34:31-04:00

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Pope Francis on sin, confession and several other things

Last updated on: September 20, 2013 at 1:34 pm By tmatt

It was a story that received very little attention in the United States, other than in conservative publications and in the briefs that newsrooms devote to human-interest stories. But here is the top of a longer report in The Daily Mail (with characteristics of British news style intact): Pope Francis has telephoned a woman who wrote to him to tell her he will baptise her unborn after she refused to have an abortion. … Shop worker Anna Romano, 35, was... Read more

2013-09-20T13:50:51-04:00

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Intended consequences — The Times & Jewish Jerusalem

Last updated on: September 20, 2013 at 1:50 pm By geoconger

Choosing determines all human decisions. In making his choice man chooses not only between various material things and services. All human values are offered for option. All ends and all means, both material and ideal issues, the sublime and the base, the noble and the ignoble, are ranged in a single row and subjected to a decision which picks out one thing and sets aside another. Nothing that men aim at or want to avoid remains outside of this arrangement... Read more

2013-09-20T01:20:36-04:00

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Toasting the Godbeat

Last updated on: September 20, 2013 at 1:20 am By mollie

Last night the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty honored Eric Marrapodi, manager of CNN’s Belief Blog, with its first Vine & Fig Tree Journalist Award. I had the pleasure of attending and had an absolutely fantastic time and enjoyed meeting or seeing again many folks on the Godbeat. I hadn’t really thought about what the evening would be like going in so I was pleasantly surprised at what a celebration of religion reporting it was. It’s really unusual to have... Read more

2013-09-19T14:46:04-04:00

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Jackpot! Godbeat pro shows her winning hand

Last updated on: September 19, 2013 at 2:46 pm By Bobby Ross Jr.

If you’re in a hurry, there’s no need to finish the rest of this post. Just make sure you take the time to read this story. This 2,000-word piece by Chicago Tribune religion writer Manya Brachear exemplifies the absolute best of Godbeat journalism. It combines solid reporting, vivid writing, relevant context, excellent sourcing and real-life human drama, all produced by a seasoned professional who obviously gets religion — Judaism in this case. Brachear goes behind the scenes of a rabbi’s... Read more

2013-09-19T10:23:03-04:00

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Do religious readers really want quality religion coverage?

Last updated on: September 19, 2013 at 10:23 am By tmatt

It has been awhile since our own Bobby Ross, Jr., quoted that laugh-to-keep-from-crying tweet by New York Times religion scribe Laurie Goodstein that said (all together now): “Will the last one on the religion beat please turn out the lights?” Mocking the typical newsroom attitude that three anecdotes equals a valid news trend, Ross asked if it was time for someone to write a story about “why no one wants to cover the religion beat anymore?” Discussion ensued, including this... Read more

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