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July 2014

July 27, 2014

Mariam goes free, at last, while some questions linger

Other than editors trying to figure out the correct spelling of her name, there were...

July 22, 2014

The Mosul purge: How good is the media coverage?

The purge of Christians from Mosul in northern Iraq -- home to thriving Christian communities...

July 09, 2014

Brazil’s faith in football: What happens after the apocalypse?

If you know anything about the sport the world calls "football," then you know that...

June 2014

June 07, 2014

BBC veteran: You know, the press just doesn’t get religion

Well, here is a gift to a GetReligionista who is on vacation. I mean, what...

June 06, 2014

As usual, good Francis and bad Benedict at the BBC

The honeymoon continues for Pope Francis and the press. Coverage of the pope's trip to...

May 2014

May 07, 2014

Boko Haram leader’s profile: chilling but incomplete

"His name is Abubakar Shekau. He is the leader of Boko Haram. And he has...

May 02, 2014

It’s not hard! WPost offers some crucial Boko Haram facts

In the past month or two, I have been really, really hard on the editors...

February 2014

February 03, 2014

Tweeting Mohammad

The Mohammad cartoon controversy has resurfaced over the past week with a flutter over a...

January 2014

January 09, 2014

No sex please, we’re Indian

Rape and religion returned to the front pages of India's newspapers this week after a...

November 2013

November 04, 2013

KKK hoods, ‘two angels’ and a frustrating ghost

It's a "where are they now" story that I was intrigued to read, since I...

October 2013

October 21, 2013

The BBC and the perils of press releases

The BBC's internet news division stumbled badly this week in its initial report on a...

September 2013

September 23, 2013

Triumph of the stringer in the Nairobi massacre coverage

African reporters are coming into their own with the stories coming out of Kenya this...

August 2013

August 30, 2013

Should some marriages be scare-quoted?

Many moons ago, when I was asking questions about why Religion News Service put "religious...

August 27, 2013

Where is the BBC’s coverage of Egypt?

What lays behind the Anglo-American press's failure to report on the chaos in Egypt? While...

August 01, 2013

The moral (and news) authority of Desmond Tutu

An article at BBC.com on the launch of a United Nations-backed campaign to promote gay...

July 2013

July 03, 2013

BBC silence on honor killings and Islam

The BBC reports three Pakistani women were murdered by a member of their family for...

June 2013

June 18, 2013

BBC attacks major same-sex marriage stereotype (updated)

Here inside the Beltway, a kind of nervous hush has settled over the church-state battlefield...

May 2013

May 22, 2013

A quiverfull of kudos for the BBC

As an Evangelical in the media, I’m sympathetic to the struggle journalists have with reporting on...

April 2013

April 19, 2013

Gosnell fog blankets Britain

Last week my colleague at GetReligion Mollie Hemingway broke the American media blockade surrounding the...

March 2013

March 13, 2013

Dudes with red hats deadlocked on pope winner

The religion news world remains on pope watch, awaiting the selection of Benedict XVI's successor....

February 2013

February 19, 2013

Guardian wins week one of 2013 All-England pope-bashing contest

The year’s at the spring, And day’s at the morn; Morning’s at seven; The hill-side’s...

February 04, 2013

The New York Times’ Conservative love affair

The New York Times may not love American conservatives, but they are certainly enamored with...

January 2013

January 25, 2013

Pod people: Finding gold in the religion reporting dross

The newspaperman's art of rubbishing someone, while appearing professional and even-handed was the principal object...

January 21, 2013

BBC misses religious-liberty ghost in St. Francisville, La.

Through the years, your GetReligionistas have gone out of our way to note that it's...

January 14, 2013

Anti-gay marriage protests prompt ire of the BBC

The BBC has an extraordinary report on its website detailing Sunday's march in the French...