Keywords: English, religion, faith, media coverage, diversity, report, all media formats
This report reflects the discussions and the outcomes of the “Religion and The News” conference held at Cumberland Lodge.
Seventy journalists and faith leaders participated in the conference to discuss the interaction between religion and the news. Over the past twenty years the coverage of religious news in the media has radically changed: religion is no longer a “soft‟ story. Religious issues pervade the reporting of domestic politics and foreign affairs, and even if a religious story seems self-contained, its ramifications often generate comment from unrelated parts of the secular press.The upshot is that religious representatives often feel misrepresented in the press. Equally, journalists at the conference felt that religious people do not always fully appreciate how the media operates: it is not there to provide free publicity. The meeting offered the opportunity for both of them to explain their frustrations to one another while it also gave them the opportunity to learn from each other.
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