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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 27, 1956)
Statesman, Salem, Ore., Fri., April 27, '33 (Sec. I)-13 jlore Papers Hire Church News Editors OPEN MONDAY AND FRIDAY 12:15 TO 9 P.M. OTHER DAYS - 9:30 A. M. TO 5:30 P. M. FREE STORE-SIDE PARKING FOR OVER 1,000 CARS I r By GEORGE W. CORNELL AsmcUIH Pms Staff Writer A new, sharper spotlight today Is being turned on religions activ t 1 i ity in this country. Sometimes the church leaders re glad to have it, and some times H makes them flinch. The increased public surveil lance of religious affairs comes through a relatively new breed of newt specialist, the religion re porter. Maynard Kniskern, editor of the Springfield, Ohio, Sun. says: "Probably the most important editorial development in Amer ican Journalism since World War It is tbe rise of the religious news editor or reporter. He has at tained the -status of a full-time newspaper specialist." It's not so lonf azo that manv publications were inclined to by pass digging into the intimate do ings of religious institutions, their methods, tensons and develop ments. Some still are wary of it. The notion behind this seems to be that religion is a private spiritual matter, on which people have highly i sensitive feelings which should not be -subjected to possible offense through open, full-scale coverage. -Basic Faetor But religion also has been a basic factor in the story of man ' his wars, rebellions, progress and attitudes, and American pub lications are stepping up efforts to cover it in their job of record ing history-in-the-making. Religion has been admitted to page one, observed Dr. C. Pen rose St. Amant, church history . professor of New Orleans Baptist Seminary. An indication, of the expansion In this field of Information came this week at 1 meeting in Min neapolis of a seven-year-old na tional organization, the Religious Jtewswriteri Assn. It now has about 70 members, one-time sportswriters, police-beat legmen, state-house reporters or general newsmen most , of whom in the last half dozen years have been put on a new specialty ' toe cnurcn heat." Church Editors 'Robert D. Whitaker, association president for two years and re ligion editor of the Providence, R.I., Journal and Evening Bulle tin, said "many dailies across the country have added full-time church- editors." "The church desk no longer is assigned to the newest man on the staff with instructions to 'tel ephone around to the churches and see what they are doing'," I he said. "Religion coverage today calls for specialists. It has, he said, become an "ex acting and important" Job of sit ting in on all sorts of religious meetings, digging into projects and plans and shades of view points, in order to serve "the peo ple's right to know." When the association was found ed in 1949, there was only a hand ful of qualified members in the country, an estimated 20 or 25 regular religion editors, most on ; larger metropolitan newspapers. I Now the estimate is around 150. i Caspar H. Nannes. newly elect 1 ed president of the association and religion editor of the Wash I ington Evening Star, said that up I to the late 1940's, "religious news, especially on the national scale. 1 had been i hit and miss affair." 1 Keep Close Tab But a new, expert corps of re ligion reporters is developing, he $ said, specialists who keep close tab on religious affairs, thus be- t mg alert to .motives, background, 'goals and nuances of thought 1 and able to tell about them. These reporters, he added, are t Vint "tMvmartanfi'inrti Anm siivli ft nn" in any sense, but nonpartisan. straight-writing newsmen, with a i necessary comprehension of the subtle currents of their subject. To stimulate high-quality reli gious reporting, the association in 1953 set up the James 0. Supply Memorial Award, in memory of the late top flight religion report er for the Chicago Sun-Times. A $100 cash prize goes with it. It was awarded this week to Kenneth Dole, of the Washington Post and Times Herald. Previous winners for excellence in religion reporting are Willmae Thorkelson, of the Minneapolis Star 1955; Ora Spaid, of the Louisville Courier-Journal, 1954, and Marilyn Gilbertson, of the Winona, Minn., Republican-Herald 1953, now Wi nona Daily News. founders of the association were a small group of reporters covering 1 Presbyterian meeting in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1949. Subways to Carry Mail NEW YORK tfi Mail will be carried by the city's subway trains on an experimental basis this sum mer. 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