FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

April 19, 2007
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Contact:   Tonya Strong-Charles
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tstrong@jcu.edu

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John Carroll University Presents:
 Religion Reporting in 2007   
Friday, April 20, 2007
2:30 p.m.
Donahue Auditorium

No photography will be permitted.

A roundtable discussion engaging Cleveland journalists and religious communicators and 20 visiting journalists from East Asia.  The key question of the event will be: Church attendance in America surged after 9/11 as did the news media’s coverage of religion in the United States.  Is religion reporting still up to our expectations?

                        Panelists include:

• David Briggs, The Cleveland Plain Dealer,  
• Obie Shelton, reporter, WKYC-TV3
• Sr. Mary Ann Flannery, S.C., Ph.D, John Carroll University
• Robert Tayak, Cleveland Catholic Diocese
• Julia Shearson, Council on American-Islamic Relations
• Cynthia Dettelbach, Cleveland Jewish News

Moderator: Richard Hendrickson, Ph.D., assistant professor, JCU
Coordinator: Margarita Shulman, Cleveland Council on World Affairs

Richard Hendrickson, Ph.D., assistant professor, John Carroll University

John Carroll University, located in Cleveland, Ohio, is a liberal arts university grounded in the Jesuit, Catholic tradition.  The university has some 3,100 plus undergraduates and just over 700 graduate students.  The U.S. News & World Report’s 2007 annual college guide ranks John Carroll University among the top 10 master’s-degree granting universities in the Midwest and first in average graduation rate. Originally founded as St. Ignatius College in 1886, the university was renamed in 1923 to honor America’s first Catholic bishop, John Carroll of Maryland.  John Carroll is one of 28 Jesuit colleges and universities located in the United States.

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