The Press, Pulpit and Public Opinion: The Clergy's Conferral of Power and the Concomitant Call for a Journalism of Advocacy in an Age of Reform

Covering religion: Field insurgency in United States religion reporting

“…As noted earlier, religion reporting primarily emerges out of the lifestyle journalism approach to journalism (Rodgers, 2010). Despite steady and substantial growth in lifestyle journalism over time, few studies explore this aspect of the journalistic field within journalism studies scholarship (Hanusch et al, 2017(Hanusch et al, , 2020.…”

Social survey reportage: Context, narrative, and information visualization in early 20th century American journalism

“…But while we can attribute much of the MRFM's understanding of church-press relations to Stelzle individually, this new way of thinking about the relationship between the church and journalism must also be understood in relationship to larger cultural changes in American society as a whole. The church, long used to seeing itself as the primary national agent of 'education and moral uplift', began in the early 20th century to come to terms with the fact that that role was being usurped by the mass media (Rodgers, 2010). Although careful to frame its thinking in terms of the equivalent power of the church and the press (messages of the MRFM), even to grant the press equal say in the shape of American morals and public opinion was a major retreat by the clergy:…”