Ruth Gledhill - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Tue, 03 Jun 2014 11:19:59 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Ruth Gledhill - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 The Times scraps religion correspondent role https://cathnews.co.nz/2014/05/27/times-scraps-religion-correspondent-role/ Mon, 26 May 2014 19:05:17 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=58309 English newspaper The Times will no longer have a specialist religion correspondent, after the departure of Ruth Gledhill who held the post for 25 years. Writing in The Tablet, former religious affairs correspondent for The Times Clifford Longley lamented the move. "In the case of newspapers, they will continue to report on religion, though less Read more

The Times scraps religion correspondent role... Read more]]> English newspaper The Times will no longer have a specialist religion correspondent, after the departure of Ruth Gledhill who held the post for 25 years.

Writing in The Tablet, former religious affairs correspondent for The Times Clifford Longley lamented the move.

"In the case of newspapers, they will continue to report on religion, though less of it," Longley wrote.

"In a subject of considerable complexity, rife with public misunderstanding, expertise is no longer, by and large, thought necessary," he continued.

"That is itself an insidious kind of secular judgement - that making a mess of the coverage of religion is now a risk the media is prepared to run because the subject doesn't matter anymore."

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