Journalism

Introducing Divinity Dialogues—a special edition podcast series from Harvard Divinity School that puts conversations on faith, purpose, and bearing witness at the center of today’s most pressing issues. Today, we hear from HDS alum Joshua Eaton, MDiv ’10...

“The idea of Shabbat—the way that I’ve always taken it to heart, or what makes me feel better when I’m so overwhelmed with work and asking, “How can I take a day off?”—is the guiding principle that you spend six days changing the world and then one day...

E. J. Dionne’s early passion for language grew out of the debates and books that filled his Fall River home. His writing grew out of his love for reading. A 1973 graduate of Harvard, where he wrote for The Crimson, Dionne covered politics for 14 years for...

Professor Catherine Brekus takes listeners on a journey through the history of American chosenness and how the concepts relate to our understanding of American exceptionalism today during The Faith Angle Forum in May.

Shira Telushkin, a student at Harvard Divinity School, is one of 12 journalism students and early-career journalists chosen by Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) to participate in a two-week program in Germany and Poland...

How do journalists cover religion? What makes for good religion reporting? What do journalists need to know about religion to do their job? A symposium on December 8 and 9, 2016, at Harvard Divinity School brought together some of the nation's leading...

On Thursday, Dec. 8, Dean Baquet, the executive editor of the New York Times, lamented the dearth of good religion journalism in an NPR interview with Terry Gross. On the very same day, the Times's religion reporter, Laurie Goodstein, echoed his concerns...

Through the Religious Literacy and the Professions Initiative, Senior Lecturer Diane Moore hopes to enhance understanding of religions to undercut bigotry and prejudice.

Washington Post religion journalist and current Nieman fellow Michelle Boorstein described the difficulties journalists who report on religion face, addressing an audience at the Center for the Study of World Religions.

The Rev. Liz Walker's transformative journey from television news reporter to pastor began with an inauspicious start. "My first day at Harvard Divinity School was September 11, 2001," said the former anchor at WBZ-TV in Boston. "I was coming out of the...