Religion reporting & feature writing decline

Professor of religious history at the University of Chicago Martin E. Marty's lamentations on the decline in Religion Reporting through "the cutting-back of newspaper news and the firing of first-rate religion reporters."

Religion news is not unique. The thinning scythe cuts through all news departments, and much more. But this is occurring ironically in religion departments, we at Sightings say, during the decade(s) in which secular news organizations are at last recognizing the role and power of religion.

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