It was clear many of the reporters were already engaging with the challenges of reporting and understanding stories from faith communities and we were glad to engage in the debate and hopefully offer insights and tips from our collective experience.

“The key to the Community News Project is that reporters are engaging with and reporting on previously underserved communities in their area. As part of this, it is so important for journalists to build trust with faith groups locally, and report on them fairly and accurately, so we were delighted to be able to partner with the Religion Media Centre to facilitate such an engaging and enlightening training session for the CNP reporters.”

-Will Gore, head of partnerships and projects, NCTJ

“The training session was a great help. For those of us who aren’t religion specialists it gave a succinct primer on the big issues in covering Christianity, Islam and Judaism, the way the religions are addressed in the media and examples of recent stories – with analysis of how they were covered. There was also a very accessible and frank discussion between the panel and journalists in the audience.”

– Nick Renaud-Komiya, Freelance journalist & editor