I attended a Faith and the Media Symposium on Thursday night that went quite well. Along with myself, there was another media representative there who is the managing editor of the Brampton Guardian.
The event was organized by some Muslim community members and they were kind enough to arrange to have me driven to the event, as well as dropping me off at home after the event. I brought my books to sell, however there really was not enough time for me to sell any.
The focus of my presentation was pointing out that there really are not any journalism and religion courses at many schools and this is not preparing young reporters to go out in the field to cover the issues. Some of things I am hoping to do are to rectify this situation by perhaps proposing a journalism and religion course at one of the schools I teach at.
The night was overall a success and I had a terrific time. Went to bed way past my bedtime, however it was well worth it.
