ABSTRACT
The relationship between religion and news media is often difficult and fraught with mutual misunderstanding. Nevertheless, as Paul Woolley argues, it is a relationship worth getting right. In this chapter, Woolley suggests how the relationship between religions and the media (and the news media in particular) could be improved. He argues that much coverage of religion currently demonstrates a lack of religious literacy, and that religion editors need to be as well informed and experienced as their counterparts in economics or business reporting. He also argues that religions need to play their part in getting the relationship right, by engaging more readily and more clearly with different media, especially the news and journalists.
