http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3947[GetReligion.org] 23 Sep 2008--As I mentioned the other day, it was great getting to spend part of Saturday hanging out at the Religion Newswriters Association meetings here in Washington, D.C.
I mean, check out the names on the program! Also, there’s some material on the official RNA weblog of the event (and I hope that will be updated and refreshed). Then there is the inevitable YouTube fest from some of the panel discussions. Yes, I’m in there defending what we do here at GetReligion.org to an audience of (gulp) religion-news professionals.
It was great to see lots of old friends and talk shop. And in the midst of that, I ran into a veteran Godbeat reporter your GetReligionistas have often hailed as one of the best when it comes to covering highly complex stories, especially those linked to the local, regional, national and global — keep repeating that mantra — Anglican wars.
That reporter is Ann Rodgers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and her work often shows the value of experience on this oh-so-complex beat. Right now, she has a major flare-up of the Anglican wars taking place in her backyard — that 88-35 vote by some of the nation’s Episcopal bishops to depose Pittsburgh Bishop Robert Duncan. At the heart of the battle is the planned vote by his diocese to exit the U.S. Episcopal Church and to align with conservative Anglicans in South America.
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