Research on media challenges in covering religion
The IARJ is recommending to journalists a ground-breaking series of studies about media coverage of religion by a nonprofit coalition and the HarrisX research company.
ARDA lets us compare religion nation by nation
ARDA's World Religion database is a powerful tool for comparing the religious populations of nations worldwide.
Pew Research Center tackles ‘Measuring Religion in China’
How Pew Research is trying to provide accurate data on China.
Writing on religion in the digital age
Veteran religion writer David Briggs shares basic principles for reporting in the digital age.
Tips for writing compelling religion stories
As the options for obtaining news multiply, what separates one newspaper or one website or one television station from another is the quality and interest of the stories they tell. All of the technological opportunities offered by new media come to…
Reporting on conflict in the digital age
Some of the first reports on the Norway massacre fueled speculation Muslims were responsible. Later reports described the perpetrator as a Christian terrorist or a Christian fundamentalist. Grisly images of the corpse of Moammar Gaddafi quickly made their way…
Primer on religious freedom and global conflict: a review of the evidence
Religious Freedoms in the Global Context Despite being labeled as the orphan of human rights in the 1990s, religious freedom was one of the first rights to be recognized under international law. Even today a review of formal…
Primer on Islam: the many faces of Islam
Islam, with its 1.5 billion Muslims globally is the second largest of the world’s religions. Like Christianity, Islam has spread throughout much of the world and thus today is both an Eastern and Western religion. Islam is not only the second largest of the…