1998 Faith and Media conference Articles
Plenary session address: Why the Media Need to Pay Attention to What People Believe.
June 17, 2004
It's a real joy to be here with you tonight. It's very exciting for me as a religion reporter to have so many of you here representing so many different religious faiths. You'll probably get the sense, before I finish this talk, why it's important to me. Sometimes I feel like I have a foot in bot...
Barriers to Faith Coverage (2): What reporters wish faith groups knew about how the media works
June 17, 2004
Conference Seeks More Fair Coverage of Israeli-Palestinian Issues
June 17, 2004
NEW YORK CITY - Emphatic exchanges of contesting points of view about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict characterized an April 17-18 conference here, titled Megaphones and Muffled Voices: What Constitutes Full and Fair Media Coverage of Israeli-Palestinian Issues?
Some 80 secular and religious j...
Faith and the media--can God be found here?
June 17, 2004
We must stop treating religion as if it were like building model airplanes, not really fit for intelligent adults, says author Stephen Carter in The Culture of Disbelief. He could have speaking to the Canadian media.
Earlier this year I went through several weeks of issues of my city's daily tab...
Faith coverage needs improving, media and religious leaders agree
June 17, 2004
It took Deborah Shaw just one day in journalism school to discover the tension between reporters and people of faith.
A professor told her class there is no place for religious faith in journalism since there is no absolute truth. Shaw disagreed and said there is truth in the death and resurrec...
Plenary session address: The Future of Faith Coverage in Canada (2).
June 17, 2004
This conference has as its mission a commitment to greater clarity and insight on the issues we in media must address as we serve our audiences. I'll try today to speak more practically about some of my recent experiences and some of what it's led me to conclude about the future state of reportin...
Plenary session address: The Future of Faith Coverage in Canada (1)
June 17, 2004
I think I would start with an observation from that celebrated skeptic, Mark Twain, who said, "I thank God every day that I am not a newspaper editor, and I live my life in such a way that He will never make me one."
I think that I would offer my definition of a newspaper first as a premise for...
Opening session address by Aloysius Cardinal Ambrozic, Archbishop of Toronto
June 17, 2004
First, two brief introductory remarks. First of all, I should congratulate the organizers and the participants in this particular event. I feel it took a great deal of courage first of all to even think of it, and secondly to launch it, so my sincerest congratulations. My second remark concerns m...
Final Report, June 7-9, 1998 Faith and the Media Conference
June 17, 2004
270 people registered for the Conference. They came from Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, Alberta, B.C., Saskatchewan, the Maritimes and Northwest Territories. 45 of the participants came from Canadian media outlets. 88 worked for the religious media. Religious groups represented included Protestant, C...
