Category Archives: Press
Did you know that LDS women “flock”, “swarm”, and “buzz”?
This morning’s Salt Lake Tribune has the following story headline and opening sentence: LDS women flock to upcoming BYU Women’s Conference More than 20,000 Mormon women will swarm the campus of Brigham Young University next week, buzzing about mothering, marriage, … Continue reading
Mormon journalism — SL Tribune “Big Love” update
[NOTE: I've made a few updates and edits below.] I wrote yesterday about how the Deseret News has managed to actually increase its paid circulation by focusing more on a specific target audience — Mormons — while the Salt Lake … Continue reading
Mormon journalism pays off
Deseret News — Once upon a time the Deseret News, the Church-owned newspaper in Salt Lake City, carried on a highly entertaining feud with the anti-Mormon Salt Lake Tribune. In these calmer days, the Tribune and the News share the … Continue reading
Ignorance at work
UPDATED 01/12/07: A more general critique of Feldman’s article can be found over at GetReligion. Noah Feldman, in today’s New York Times Magazine, puts forth a thesis about “Mormon secrecy” that just is ill-informed. Feldman clearly has access to certain … Continue reading
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Grading press coverage
Joel Campbell — an assistant professor of journalism at BYU, who blogs at the LDS Newsline site — has graded (A-F) some recent efforts at press coverage of the LDS Church and its beliefs. He’s pretty blunt and not afraid … Continue reading
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