Editor change, resignations at RNS

[rlvaughn]

Editor change, resignations signal shakeup at RNS

Religion News Service — a news service of record for newspapers, magazines, broadcast organizations covering religion, ethics and spirituality around the world — has replaced its editor-in-chief in what appears to be a major shakeup of the award-winning non-profit founded in 1934.

 

[Jerome]

Cedarville grad Sarah Jones with a lengthy article on this, RNS staffers told her of concerns about publisher Tom Gallagher's religious bias:

Inside the Spectacular Implosion of Religion News Service The country’s leading religious news wire hired a new publisher in 2016. Then it all fell apart.

Gallagher, a former Wall Street attorney with no experience in editorial management, quickly set about reshaping RNS after his hiring in 2016.

Staffers tell me that Gallagher’s behavior was part of a pattern, with Gallagher repeatedly attempting to influence the site’s coverage of Catholicism. Internal emails, some of which were also reported by the Columbia Journalism Review on Friday, depict a deteriorating relationship between staff and a publisher who increasingly sought to tighten control over the nonprofit news outlet’s coverage

 

[Reformed]

I am not too familiar with RNS but I would be too far off to say that it is a secular organization that reports on religion?

 

[rlvaughn]

I am not too familiar with RNS but I would be too far off to say that it is a secular organization that reports on religion?

I'd say that is about right. It is currently owned by Religion News Foundation:

a secular educational and charitable 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization housed at the University of Missouri’s Columbia campus, in its top-flight School of Journalism.

From RNS's history, looks like it was once a more religious organization, first owned by National Conference of Christians and Jews, and then by United Methodist Reporter.

 

[Salty]

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