{"id":9162,"date":"2008-10-21T23:28:46","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T23:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/evangelicals_say_theyre_not_represented_in_newsrooms\/"},"modified":"2008-10-21T23:28:46","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T23:28:46","slug":"evangelicals_say_theyre_not_represented_in_newsrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9162","title":{"rendered":"Evangelicals say they&#39;re not represented in newsrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One way to change this perception, some church leaders, social commentators and journalists say, is for mainstream news organizations to employ \u201d\u201d and keep \u201d\u201d more evangelicals in their newsrooms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Journalism has become more of a white-collar field that draws from elite colleges,&#8221; said Terry Mattingly, director of the Washington Journalism Center for the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities and a religion columnist for Scripps Howard News Service. &#8220;While there&#8217;s been heavy gender and racial diversity &#8230; there&#8217;s a lack of cultural diversity in journalism,&#8221; including religion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2008-10-20-evangelical-journalists_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One way to change this perception, some church leaders, social commentators and journalists say, is for mainstream news organizations to employ \u201d\u201d and keep \u201d\u201d more evangelicals in their newsrooms. &#8220;Journalism has become more of a white-collar field that draws<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9162\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,419,89,154,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-evangelicals","category-media","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}