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When ‘Like’ is Not Enough
By Candice Johnson On September 19, 2017 close to 30 people gathered at the Church of Latter Day Saints for the first NYC RCC meeting this Fall. Ryan Koch, NYC RCC Chapter President, was this month’s speaker. He spoke on best practices for social media with...
It’s all about finding a good story, CBS Sunday Morning producer tells New York Chapter
By Linda Bloom CBS Sunday Morning is always looking for a good story that will appeal to their average audience of 6 million viewers. “The Harmony Project,” says Dustin Stephens, a CBS Sunday Morning producer, was one of those stories and all it took was a...
Ali to communicators: We have to tell our own stories
By Nadine Hasenecz Wajahat Ali received a standing ovation for his dry humor-infused pre-luncheon keynote “How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to be a Moderate Muslim” Saturday at the Religion Communicators Council’s 2017 annual convention in Chicago. As...
Workshop tackles anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim movements
By Carolyn Lewis CHICAGO (April 1, 2017) — “There is no magic solution,” a group of RCC convention participants learned Saturday during a session to discuss “News from the Frontlines, Defeating Anti-Muslim and Anti-Immigrant Movements.” “There has been a lot...
The many lessons learned when hosting the Pope
By Deb Christian CHICAGO (April 1, 2017) — Fr. Manuel Dorantes (Fr. Manny) has been a student of philosophy, a seminarian, a journalist-in-training, a graduate student (MBA), and is now a Catholic priest serving the Archdiocese of Chicago. He speaks at least...
Religion communicators trained for crisis scenarios
By Patrick Horn CHICAGO (April 1, 2017) — Katherine Kerr, a self-described “recovering journalist” and co-founder of Polaris Non-Profit Solutions LLC, offered a strategy for crisis communications in a workshop held during the annual convention of the...
Religion Communicators explore faith communications and presence at convention
CHICAGO — The omnipresence of faith communications “here, there and everywhere” and mastering the channels for communicating those messages served as the theme of the Religion Communicators Council’s (RCC) annual convention, March 30-April 1. The three-day...
Theater as communicator? Silk Road Rising shows how it can be done
By Deb Christian CHICAGO (March 31, 2017) — A special feature at RCC’s 2017 convention was a workshop that tells the story of how the arts, theater specifically, functions as a communicator. Silk Road Rising is a theater group using live performance and...
Re-writing the script: analyzing gender and religion in the media
By Blake Meller In a workshop held during the 2017 Religion Communicators Council conference, Glory Dharmaraj, the U.S coordinator for the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) of the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC), and media...
RCC elects new leaders at annual business meeting
By Deb Christian Chicago (March 31, 2017) — The Rev. Bud Heckman, convener of the Interfaith Funders Group and a specialist in interfaith relations, philanthropy and communications from New York was elected president of the Religion Communicators Council...
Podcasters give tips to RCC convention goers
By Kelly Fanning CHICAGO (March 31, 2017) — David Dault (@DaultRadio), host of the radio program Things Not Seen: Conversations about Culture and Faith, and Rev. Steven D. Martin of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. presented a...
Meaning-making among the disenfranchised
By Paul Chaffee CHICAGO (April 1, 2017) — Jessica Mesman Griffith and Jonathan Ryan admitted at the top that they knew very little about blogging when they began. They were quite clear, though, about what they wanted to offer their readers and contributors:...