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The 1998 Faith and the Media conference received a large amount of
press in a variety of places. Some of the reports are available here.
Please contact the authors for copyright issues.
Canadian Jewish News
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Canadian Jewish
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Faith groups should demand more and better coverage from Canadian media Faith groups should demand more and better coverage from Canadian media, and the media should pay more attention to religious groups and issues Media weigh "God beat" |
The Canadian Baptist
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Will they ever get it right?
Mass media seem to lack the knack for giving faith its due, but change
may be on the way.
By Tim Kylie, The Canadian Baptist, September, 1998 |
Christian Science
Monitor
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Canadian media grapple with religious news |
ChristianWeek
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Faith coverage needs improving, media and religious leaders agree An overview of the Conference by Andrew Wagner-Chazalon Let your light shine Faith groups encouraged to be media savvy |
Guelph Mercury
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A matter of faith Involvement in a media scan revealed more faith coverage, at local, national and international levels, than expected |
Montreal Gazette
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Looking at faith and the media Tension between faith and media "goes deeper than accurate and inaccurate reporting" The religious review the reporters Many trenchant criticisms of media coverage of religion emerge at conference in Ottawa |
Ottawa Citizen
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'I'm pleading for empathy' Cardinal says faith groups just want to be understood Religious leaders slam media for coverageFaith leaders roasted media bosses yesterday at Canada's first national conference on how to improve media coverage of religion. Faith good for the soul and circulation: editorsNewspapers can make more money by giving coverage to religion, say two of Canada's top editors. Have faith in the media Differences between the media and religion will not and should not disappear, but the two cultures should try harder to understand each other. |
St. Thomas Times-Journal
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Media lacks faith in faith |
Toronto Star
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Media caught between sacred and secular |
Vancouver Sun
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"Deep down newspapers are superficial" An overview of the Conference by Religion Reporter Douglas Todd |
Winnipeg Free Press
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Is there room for religion along with the daily news?Do the media deal with issues of religion and faith fairly and adequately? These are the questions being asked today at an Ottawa conference touted as Canada's first to focus on faith and the media Milgaard says faith puzzled journalists Media just starting to listen to how Bible motivated her Religion can be hot topic People of faith want more than the occasional column on a "Faith" page. But the problem with opening up the coverage of religion is that it opens up the question of how far religious groups either want to be or should be open to criticism. |
Last modified: 29 October 1999