The Elizabeth and Robert Plumleigh Lecture Series
Religion in a Time of Politics
News and Good News:
Religion and American Journalism
Diane Winston, PhD, Knight Chair in Media and Religion at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
6:30 PM — USC Davidson Conference Center
Diane Winston, PhD
Brief Description: An overview of the relationship between religion and journalism in the U.S.
Winston will then offer an assessment of issues, challenges and opportunities for journalists covering religion at a time of dramatic flux--both in the world and in their profession
Diane Winston holds the Knight Chair in Media and Religion at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California.
Between 1983 and 1995, Professor Winston covered religion at the Raleigh News and Observer, the Dallas Times Herald and the Baltimore Sun and contributed regularly to the Dallas Morning News. She has won numerous press association awards and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Her articles also have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post and the Chronicle of Higher Education among other publications. Winston's blogging about religion and media can also be found on her Web site, trans-missions.org.
In 1996, Winston received a Ph.D. from Princeton University. She also holds Master's degrees from Harvard Divinity School and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Her published books are Red Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of the Salvation Army (Harvard, 1999), Faith in the Market: Religion and Urban Commercial Culture( Rutgers, 2003) and Small Screen, Picture: Lived Religion and Television (Baylor, 2009). She is finishing two books, The Oxford Handbook on Religion and the American News Media (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Heartland Religion: The American News Media and the Reagan Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2013).
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