Faith and Media Articles
Media Must Learn Dance
July 09, 2004
The Centre for Faith and Media plans to help the media and faith communities
How to cover religion on any beat
June 17, 2004
Why write about religion?
Because faith has shaped our world -- for good or ill -- and we cannot fully understand the world around us without understanding faith.
Because understanding religious myths helps us to understand the shape of the human mind and heart. Why do we believe Davids can ...
Tips on covering religion in Canada
June 17, 2004
There are many excellent articles on covering religion as a journalist, and some of those articles are already on this website. But most of those articles have been written by Americans, and Canada has a very different religious profile than the U.S. That ought to be obvious to us, but it isn't, ...
Covering Religion: How they do it in Dallas
June 17, 2004
When a newspaper devotes a colourful six-page Saturday section to religion, it announces that it intends to do something right by religion. Most would judge that the Dallas Morning News is doing something right for religion and its readers, but the section has been good for the paper too. Bob Mon...
A practical list of tips for journalists and editors to consider when covering stories about Islam.
June 17, 2004
Headlines are the most obvious sign of a negative bias against Muslims in newspapers. Dominant discourse in the West carries anti-Islamic assumptions, so these headlines are still frequently used and not always noticed as problematic. Karim H. Karim, in his book Islamic Peril: Media and Global Vi...
The hands on how to report religion book
June 17, 2004
In darker moments, critics of the reporting of religion might wonder when someone will write Reporting Religion for Dummies or Religion for Idiot Reporters. But as anyone who has spent time talking to reporters will know, journalists are seldom dummies or idiots. Instead, the discrepancies and er...
Faith and Media Since 9/11
June 17, 2004
On September 11, as Kirk Lapointe, Senior Vice-President of CTV News, watched the World Trade Centre towers burning on monitors in his newsroom, he looked around and realized that "there were no Muslims in my newsroom . . . we didn't have an in-house resource to help us."
Today, CTV recognizes t...
Why People of God Don't Talk to the Press
May 01, 2004
Recently I spent the better part of a year doing a story for The New Yorker on the archibishop of Milwaukee, Rembert Weakland. To get an accurate picture of what a member of the Catholic hierarchy does and thinks, I visited with him a number of times in Milwaukee, returned with him to his monaste...
Plenary session address: Is There Faith in Canada, and Does the Media Care? (2)
March 31, 2004
We've got two questions here: Is there faith in Canada, and do the media care? And being a dealer in facts, I have the answer: It depends. It really depends on your perspective. No one comes to this without some sort of lens or some sort of bias or some sort of way of looking at things that reall...
