VIDEO: Coffee Talk – The State of Religion Reporting Today
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December’s Coffee Talk was on Religion Reporting and featured a panel of religion reporters and columnists. See the video above!
Panelists were:
- National reporter for the Religion News Service, Bob Smietana.
- Reporter Tara Roberts, a freelance journalist for SpokaneFāVS
- Student journalist Loren Negron, who is the editor of the Daily Evergreen at WSU
- FāVS and Spokesman-Review Columnist Paul Graves.
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Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of SpokaneFāVS.com, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Assistant Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.
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