Catholic media, like their secular counterpart, is facing a day of reckoning caused by the rapid switch from print to digital media, as well as financial challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic and other factors.
Loss of print media seen as posing challenges to U.S. church communications
Digital age, hostility, pandemic: Perfect storm for Canada’s Catholic media
The country’s traditional Catholic media outlets are trying to stay afloat as they transition from print to digital formats, find ways to cover a hierarchy that increasingly uses social media to get out its own message, and compete with secular and confessional websites.
Nation/World news briefs: July 25, 2022
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Catholic journalists urged to face media, church distrust head-on
“Journalists and communicators have a role to play here, to let the eucharistic mystery of the church manifest itself for the life of the world,” said Timothy O’Malley.
Magazine, communications staff win national awards
The awards were announced July 7 at the 2022 Catholic Media Conference held in Portland, Oregon.
From the Editor: Communication is key to a vibrant Church
The announcement that CNS will cease domestic operations at the end of 2022 also impacts what we do at The Central Minnesota Catholic.
Dutch priest proposed as patron saint of journalists
Among the 10 men and women Pope Francis proclaimed as the Catholic Church’s newest saints is Titus Brandsma, a priest and journalist who stood his ground against Nazi ideology and paid for it with his life.
Catholic News Service to cease domestic operations at year’s end
The USCCB announced to staff May 4 a dramatic reorganization of its communications department, including the closure of the Washington and New York offices of CNS.