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MICHAEL GERSON TO KEYNOTE DINNER FOR CHRISTIAN JOURNALISTS
Michael Gerson, former White House speech writer for George W. Bush, will speak at the closing dinner for the World Journalism Institute's New York City journalism course on Friday, May 30, at the Harvard Club of New York. Gerson, known as the architect of some of President Bush's most memorable speeches and now author of the bestselling book, Heroic Conservatism, is a columnist for the Washington Post and fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
The World Journalism Institute is one of the nation's premier independent schools of journalism attracting Christian teachers, speakers and students from major media outlets and colleges from around the country. Located in New York City, WJI holds its annual college-level eight-week course in early summer. This year the course will run from May 11 to July 5 with three weeks of residency in New York City. In 2008, the focus of the course will be on the so-called "new media" which stresses the need for the aspiring journalists to be competent in pod-casting, internet reporting, blogging, photo-and video journalism, as well as print journalism.
–WJI (worldji.com); February 18, 2008
CHRISTIAN MAGAZINE VENTURES BEYOND U.S. BORDERS
Christianity Today’s international impact expanded with the launch last fall of Cristianismo Hoje in Brazil. The Portuguese edition of Christianity Today was licensed a Brazilian evangelical publisher. In May, a South Korean publishing house plans to license the name and print Christianity Today.
All this comes on top of an online venture begun in 2001 by the magazine’s parent company, Christianity Today International, to work with foreign evangelical organizations to offer Internet content in 14 languages, ranging from Arabic to Swedish, said Keith Stonehocker, chief strategy officer.
Christianity Today is one of 13 publications printed by its non-profit, non-denominational parent company. Most of the readership is in the United States, with 19 percent in the Midwest.
“Missionary communications has always been part of our lives,” says David Neff, editor-in-chief of Christianity Today. “So we’re aware, I think, of global issues much more than the average citizen, because we’ve had that history.”
Cristianismo Hoje will publish up to 30 percent of Christianity Today’s stories, with the rest of the content supplied by local writers. The country has an evangelical population of 35 million, or 19 percent of Brazil’s people, Simas said.
Christianity Today’s foreign editions make sense at a time when the faith’s center of gravity has moved to the global south and east, said David Heim, executive editor of Christian Century, a theologically moderate to liberal magazine based in Chicago.
It’s a very shrewd forward-looking thing that they’re doing,” Heim said. “Most Christian magazines would like to do more foreign coverage and are aware that that’s where the church is thriving. There’s much to learn from what they’re doing.”
JOHN FUND AND FRED BARNES TO KEYNOTE STUDENT JOURNALISM CONFERENCE
John Fund, columnist and editor (The Wall Street Journal), will speak at the opening dinner of the World Journalism Institute's Conference for Christian Student Newspaper Editors and Advisers, Friday, March 14, 2008, at The King's College in New York City. Fred Barnes, author, columnist and political analyst (The Weekly Standard, FOX News) will speak at lunch on Saturday, March 15.
Friday the conference will open with New York media tours. Saturday, conference participants will be addressed by Jerry Mitchell, a 2006 Pulitizer Prize finalist for his investigative reporting for The Clarion-Ledger, Don Boykin, former deputy managing editor at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Christine Tatum (Denver Post), immediate past president of the Society of Professional Journalists, Russell Pulliam (Indianapolis Star and Pulliam Fellowships), Steve Duin, author and columnist (The Oregonian), and Robert Case (World Journalism Institute).
This year, the conference is being held immediately prior to the spring College Media Advisers New York convention (March 16-18) to make it convenient for those attending CMA. The conference cost is $50 for Friday dinner, Saturday breakfast and lunch, but for those who attend the CMA convention or a church-related school, the WJI conference cost will be
waived.
Apply online for this WJI conference at worldji.com.