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F and the M | 1999 Canada | 1999 Provinces | 1999 Religions | Notes |
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F and the M | 1999 Canada | 1999 Provinces | 1999 Religions | Notes |
Last year, much of the religion coverage was attributed to the Associated Press. This year, the story is little different, ranging from AP supplying the Brandon Sun with 37.5% of all its religious reporting to AP content of 2.31% in the Ottawa Citizen. On average, stories dealing fully with religion will originate from wire services 37.6% of the time. Some newspapers depend far more heavily on wire than others, and the results for 1999 are very similar to last year:
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Staff reporters writing on religion include ‘the usual suspects’: Bob Harvey of the Ottawa Citizen, Douglas Todd at the Vancouver Sun, and Tom Harpur at the Toronto Star were all major contributors. However, at newspapers where there exists neither religion beat nor religion page, reporting about religion often popped up in news, concert or book reviews, and in opinion columns and editorials. In fact, on average religion pages or stories written by religion reporters make up only 16% of reporting dealing mainly with religion, as compared to 43% coming from hard news, and 16% from arts and entertainment stories. Religious activity also appears in reports about charitable events within communities – for instance, Cam Tait’s community columns in the Edmonton Journal accounted for 3% of all religious coverage in that paper. |
Below is a pie graph showing where a reader of one of the newspapers studied is most likely to come across a story dealing mainly with religion:
