Religion

Apr 262013

Story on Using Koran to Reform Al Qaeda fighters Wins Amanpour Award

by Patrick Butler

Indian journalist Syed Nazakat has received the Christiane Amanpour Award for Religion Reporting for his story in The Week magazine about how Saudi Arabian officials and clerics are using the Koran and other religious texts to rehabilitate Al Qaeda fighters. The International Center for Journalists gives the award in honor of Amanpour, the 2011 winner of its Founders Award for Excellence in Journalism and a model for enlightening coverage of divisive religion issues.

For the story “Reborn in Riyadh,” Nazakat traveled to four Saudi cities.

Program: 
Creating an International Association of Religion Journalists

ICFJ offers 6-week online course on “Coverage of Religion and Global Politics”

January 7, 2013 - February 15, 2013
December 16, 2012

Join a select group of journalists throughout the world in a

International coverage of gender, health, education and religion

September 24, 2012 - November 2, 2012
September 7, 2012

Join a select group of journalists throughout the world in a new on

The Henry Luce Foundation Program to Promote Excellence in Global Coverage of Religion

Continuing its efforts to improve coverage of religion around the world, ICFJ has launched a two-year program for American and international journalists who cover religious issues. By improving professional skills and increasing the dialogue around religion, ICFJ hopes to encourage journalists to engage the subject more openly and free of bias, and simultaneously more respectfully and critically.

The program is designed to:

  • Improve U.S.

Brazil - reporter and journo at Rio

Peruvian journalist Guido Sanches and Bolivian reporter Giovanny Vera attended the digital mapping training at Rio+20. (Credit: Gustavo Faleiros)

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Founding member of the International Association of Religion Journalists Rachel Kohn talks about the importance of connecting journalists across borders.

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Founding member of the International Association of Religion Journalists (IARJ) Indeewari Dona of Sri Lanka's ART Television talks about the role religion has played in her country's conflicts and how quality religion reporting can help ease tensions.

May 242012

Religion Reporting Programs at ICFJ to Expand

New offerings include online courses and an international reporting fellowship, thanks to Luce Foundation grant

A new, $300,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation will bolster ICFJ’s religion programs and help improve U.S. and global reporting.

Program: 
Creating an International Association of Religion Journalists
Apr 112012

France's 'Burqa Ban,' One Year Later

Radio producer Arwa Gunja traveled to Paris as an International Reporting Fellow to examine the impact of France's "burqa ban." The law, instituted one year ago, is a restriction on Muslim women covering their faces in the traditional burqa or niqab.

Widely supported in France, the ban was meant to free women of gender enslavement and help Muslims better integrate into French society.

Program: 
Bringing Home the World: International Reporting Fellowship Program for Minority Journalists