Four Models of Journalism Among Christian Readers

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Terry Mattingly (tmatt.net) writes the nationally syndicated “On Religion” column for the Universal Uclick Syndicate. He was the founder of the Washington Journalism Center at the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, which, after 20 years, was rebootedat The King’s College in 2015.

Mattingly’s father was a pastor and his mother a language arts teacher. Thus, it’s no surprise that Mattingly is a journalist and teacher who focuses on religion and that he continues to study both writing and religion. He double- majored in journalism and history at Baylor University and then earned an M.A. at Baylor in Church-State Studies and an M.S. in communications at the University of Illinois in Urbana- Champaign.

He has worked as a reporter and religion columnist at The Rocky Mountain News in Denver and The Charlotte Observer and The Charlotte News. In 1991, Mattingly began teaching at Denver Seminary. While teaching, he has continued to write the weekly “On Religion” column for the features department of the Scripps Howard News Service in Washington, D.C., which is sent to about 350 newspapers in North America. He is the founder and editor of the GetReligion website -- born in 2004 -- that critiques the mainstream media’s coverage of religion news.