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Charles
Austin is a former religion reporter for The Record,
a daily newspaper in Hackensack, N.J., and has been a religion
reporter for The New York Times, an editor with Hearst
News Service, and director of news for the Lutheran Church in
America. |
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Adelle
M. Banks is the senior correspondent at Religion News Service,
a Washington-based wire service that covers religion and ethics
and whose clients include secular and religious publications.
Before coming to RNS in 1995, she worked at The Orlando Sentinel,
the Providence Journal and newspapers in upstate New
York. |
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David
Briggs is a religion writer for The (Cleveland) Plain
Dealer and president of the Religion Newswriters Association
in 2001-2002. He was the national religion writer for The Associated
Press before coming to The Plain Dealer in 1998. He also
was a religion writer for The Buffalo News before joining
AP. |
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Tiffany
Compan, designer of the print edition of this FAQ, is in
her second year with Religion Newswriters. She is a journalism
graduate of Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio, where she
was editor of the student newspaper. |
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Sandi
Dolbee has been a journalist since 1973, working as a reporter
and editor in newspapers in Washington state and California.
She has been the religion & ethics editor of The San
Diego Union-Tribune since 1992. She serves on the RNA Board
and the board of its foundation. |
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David
Gibson has been covering religion full time since 1994,
first at the Bergen Record and since 1999 at the Star-Ledger
in Newark. He was born in Plainfield, N.J., attended Furman
University in South Carolina and covered the Vatican for several
years in the late 1980s. |
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Laurie
Goodstein is national religion correspondent at The New
York Times, and before that covered religion at The Washington
Post. She has won numerous top awards for her religion coverage.
She lives in New York City with her husband and two sons. |
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Susan
Hogan/Albach has covered religion for 13 years. A winner
of the RNA's Cornell Award, she's presently a religion reporter
at The Dallas Morning News. She served as committee chair
for RNA's scholarship committee. |
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Cecile
S. Holmes, former religion editor at The Houston Chronicle,
is an assistant professor of journalism at the University of
South Carolina. A correspondent for Religion News Service, she
is a past RNA president and the author of Witnesses to the
Horror, a book about survivors of the Nazi Holocaust. |
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Don
Lattin is the award-winning religion writer for The San
Francisco Chronicle, and the co-author of Shopping for
Faith-American Religion in the New Millennium, published
in April 2000.
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Julia
Lieblich is the religion writer for the Chicago Tribune.
Her work has appeared in such publications as The New York
Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Time, Life and
Ms. She is the author of Sisters: Lives of Devotion
and Defiance. |
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Debra
L. Mason is RNA's executive director and a former award-winning
religion reporter. In addition to her reporting career, Mason
taught journalism and advised a college newspaper. She co-edited
the only anthology of religion reporting, Readings on Religion
as News. |
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Richard
N. Ostling is one of the Associated Press' two religion
writers, and the co-author (with wife Joan) of Mormon America.
He was Time magazine's religion writer for 19 years and
has also covered the field for CBS Radio and public television's
"NewsHour with Jim Lehrer." |
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Michael
Paulson has been the religion reporter for the Boston Globe
since 2000. He previously covered city hall, state government
and Congress for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, state
and national politics for the San Antonio Light, and
local and regional issues for The Patriot in Massachusetts. |
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Kim
Sue Lia Perkes is an award-winning journalist who has worked
as the religion editor for the Arizona Republic and religion
writer for the Austin American-Statesman in Texas. Other
job stints include political reporter, urban growth reporter
and features editor. Currently, she is a freelance journalist
and media consultant. |
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Ira
Rifkin has been a National Correspondent for Religion News
Service, News Director for Beliefnet.com, Deputy Editor of the
Baltimore Jewish Times and Religion Writer for The
Los Angeles Daily News. He has contributed to numerous national
publications and is the editor of Spiritual Innovators. |
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Richard
Scheinin has covered religion and ethics for the San Jose
Mercury News since 1992. A baseball lover, he is the author
of Field of Screams: The Dark Underside of America's National
Pastime, published in 1994. |
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Jeffery
L. Sheler has covered religion for U.S. News & World
Report since 1990. Prior to that he worked for UPI. He is
on the board of the Religion Newswriters Association and its
Foundation. He lives in Portsmouth, Va., and is the author of
the 1999 book, Is the Bible True? |
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Melanie
B. Smith has been religion writer for The Decatur Daily
in Alabama for nearly 24 years. She is a graduate of the University
of Southern Mississippi, has done graduate work in communications
at Auburn University and has won several awards from the Religion
Newswriters Association. |
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Jeffrey
Weiss joined the religion beat for The Dallas Morning
News in 1996. Prior to covering religion, he spent six years
as a general assignment reporter and three years covering social
services. Before, he worked for the Miami Herald, his
hometown paper, for eight years. |
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Gayle
White is a 30-year veteran of the newspaper business who
has been on the religion beat for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
since 1988. She is a past president of RNA, past winner of
the Templeton award for Reporter of the Year, and author of
Believers and Beliefs, a guide to religious doctrine,
practice and etiquette.
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