First things first, Aiesha Little has informed me of a workshop that Cincinnati Society of Professional Journalists is hosting. Information posted below.
Greater Cincinnati Society of Professional Journalists presents Faith and Balance: Reporting on Religion
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
6:30 to 8:30 pm
Springfield Township Community Center
9158 Winton Road
(513) 522-1410 (for directions)
Covering religion can be complex and knowing the best ways to approach sources in the faith community will make your job easier. Join the Greater Cincinnati Society of Professional Journalists for a discussion with religious leaders on how they work with the press. What do they think of news coverage of faith issues? How can it be done better? What's the proper protocol in interacting with religious groups? How hard should journalists push religious groups for information? The panel is a chance for both media and faith representatives to open the lines of communication for better, more accurate coverage.
Panelists are:
Hal Porter, Pastor Emeritus of Mt Auburn Presbyterian Church
Karen Dabdoub, executive director of the Cincinnati branch of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)
Robert Friedly, former vice president of public relations for the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Indianapolis
Brian Jaffee, director of the Jewish Community Relations Council at the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati
Dan Andriacco, communications director for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati
Moderated by Rebecca Bowman Woods, news editor of DisciplesWorld Magazine. Q&A with audience following panel. For more information, please contact Aiesha Little, GC SPJ vice president/programming chair, at aiesha_little@yahoo.com
BIOS:
HAL PORTER
The Rev. Dr. Hal Porter is Pastor Emeritus of Mt Auburn Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati. He has served pastorates in California, Michigan, and Wisconsin before coming to Cincinnati in 1983. He represented the Presbyterian Church (USA) on the board of the Metropolitan Area Religious Coalition of Cincinnati for the past 19 years. He was co-chair of Citizens to Restore Fairness, which led to the repeal of Article XII of the City Charter that discriminated unfairly against homosexual citizens of Cincinnati. Mt Auburn Church has received several national recognitions and has often been in the local news for its strong advocacy for social justice and equity issues. Recognitions that reflects his community involvement: the Libertarian Award from the American Civil Liberties Union’s Tri State Chapter; Maurice McCrackin Peace and Justice Award; Cincinnati Special Proclamation and Key to City 1991 and, again, 1998; and Person of Courage Award – from the Gay Community of Greater Cincinnati.
KAREN DABDOUB
Karen Dabdoub is currently the Executive Director of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), Cincinnati Office. Formerly she was the Administrator of the Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati for five years. Karen also serves the community as a commissioner with the Cincinnati Human Relations Commission, as a member of the Martin Luther King Coalition of Cincinnati, the FBI Multi-Cultural Advisory Council and the WCPO TV Community Advisory Board. She formerly served on the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights Community Advisory Committee. Karen has been a docent/tour guide and speaker for the Islamic Center’s Tours and Talks program for 13 years. She has participated in many interfaith forums in the Cincinnati tri-state area, she has spoken at churches, schools, universities and to a variety of professional and civic groups. Ms. Dabdoub is a native Cincinnatian and a graduate of Ohio University.
ROBERT FRIEDLY
Bob Friedly, for 21 years, was the public relations vice president of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). He also edited the denomination's magazine The Disciple for nine years before his retirement, and was founding editor of DisciplesWorld magazine in retirement. A former New Orleans newspaper reporter and waterfront columnist, he won the Associated Press outstanding newspaper reporting award for Louisiana and Mississippi in 1964. He was treasurer and one of the founders of the national journalists organization, Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), that a number of Pulitzer Prize winners initiated following Watergate. As a journalist he interviewed entertainers Elvis Presley and Jack Benny, labor leaders Jimmy Hoffa and Tough Tony Anastasia, inventors Buckminster Fuller and Rube Goldberg, rocket scientist Wernher von Braun and astronaut James Lovell, hotelman Conrad Hilton Jr., Nobel Prize winner Desmond Tutu, Prime Ministers Sir Garfield Todd (Rhodesia) and Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe). He traveled to 31 countries including Russia, China, and India, and visited Zimbabwe with Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King III. He is one of the few people to have met both John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald.
BRIAN JAFFEE
Brian Jaffee is the Jewish Community Relations Council Director at the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati. Brian takes the professional reins of one of the most well-established JCRCs in the country, with a 75-year history serving as the public affairs arm of Cincinnati’s organized Jewish community. Instrumental in chartering the expansion of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s award-winning Political Leadership Development Program, Brian has trained and motivated thousands of campus and community activists across the country, and developed extensive experience working with ethnic and faith community leaders. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with degrees in Political Science and History, Brian is a natural educator and a highly accomplished public speaker. He has been to Israel more than 15 times, and has led more than a dozen leadership missions to the Jewish State.
DAN ANDRIACCO
Dan Andriacco has been communications director for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati for 11 years. Before joining the Archdiocese in 1997, he worked for the Cincinnati Post for almost 24 years as a business reporter and business editor. With a Doctor of Ministry degree from Columbia Theological Seminary, he teaches classes at the Athenaeum of Ohio / Mount St. Mary's Seminary and the College of Mount St. Joseph. He has written two books on media from a religious or ministry perspective, Screeen Saved and Taming the Media Monster, as well as dozens of articles. He serves on the advisory boards of a number of non-profit corporations.
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