One of those news outlets that does consistently great religion coverage, most of it of the global variety, is Reuters. Its Faith World blog is one of the best ways to stay on top of big news from around the world. Case in point — this fascinating story about Macedonians being pressured to convert to Islam in Pakistan.
Elswhere on Reuters is a good discussion of how newsrooms should approach graphic image distribution when it comes to showing the corpses of men who’ve died as Moammar Gadhafi did. (Confused about all the spellings for Gadhafi? See here.) Speaking of the recently deceased, I thought Reuters did a good job of advancing the story in light of his death, with a nice inclusion of religion angles. It seemed these angles were missing in much of the coverage of Gadhafi’s demise.
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