Deily recently traveled to the 2016 annual convention of the Religion Communicators Council in New York City. Founded in 1929, the RCC, originally the Religion Publicity Council, is the oldest PR communications organization in the United States. The convention consisted of three full days of plenaries, panels, and workshops on a wide array of topics relevant to religious communicators. Below are some of our highlights.
Day One- The Interchurch Center aka the “God Box”
All of the Religion Communicators Council’s 2016 Handa Fellows gathered together on the opening morning of the convention.
Members of Interfaith Panel discussing “Many Paths and Even More Intersections: Navigating Multi-religious Activism” at RCC 2016 included Laurie Goodstein, national religion correspondent for The New York Times; Katherine Marshall, senior fellow at Georgetown’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs; Joyce Dubensky, CEO of Tanenbaum; Linda Sarsour, co-founder of MPOWER Change; and Katherine Rhodes Henderson, president of Auburn Seminary and spearhead of Groundswell, a faith-rooted online activism platform.
“How do we live together across our many ways of different believing?” asks Joyce Dubensky of @TanenbaumCenter#rcc16nyc
— Deily (@Deilytweet) March 31, 2016
Terrell Jermaine Starr, freelance journalist in New York City, Rev. Jacques Andre DeGraff, member of the pastoral staff at Canaan Baptist Church in Harlem, Rev. Que English, senior pastor at Bronx Christian Fellowship Church, and Dr. Frederick Harris, professor of political science and Director of the Center on African-American Politics and Society, served as members of a plenary panel discussing “Election Year and Beyond: Social and Political Activism in the City’s Black Churches” at RCC 2016.
“A church without walls” is our foremost calling says Rev “Q” English of @bcfcathedral at #rcc16nyc
— Deily (@Deilytweet) March 31, 2016
Deily was honored to be presented with Best in Class for Digital Communications at the 2016 DeRose-Hinkhouse Awards.
Read more about our big award on Yahoo Finance: Deily Presented With DeRose-Hinkhouse Award For Communications Excellence
Here are all the DeRose-Hinkhouse Award Best of Class winners. See the full list of winners here.
Day Two- Manhattan LDS Temple
Hussein Saddique, a senior television news producer, Kim Lawton, Managing Editor and Correspondent for Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, Rachel Zoll, AP religion reporter, and Debra Mason, Director of the Center on Religion and the Professions at the Missouri School of Journalism served as members of the Media Panel discussing “Re-Imagining the Religion Beat.”
“It’s our mission to inform the public…” regardless of clicks and ratings, says @Hassouny of @ajam@ReligionComm#rcc16nyc
— Deily (@Deilytweet) April 1, 2016
Daniel Sieberg. global head of media outreach with Google NewsLab talked about the Google NewsLab at RCC 2016.
The smartphone “has really become the device for consuming & creating news, it’s a distribution platform” @siebergd@googlenewslab#rcc16nyc
— Deily (@Deilytweet) April 1, 2016
Day Three- The Church Center for the U.N.
Caterina Tino, partnerships specialist for UNICEF Civil Society Partnerships in New York; Claus Grue, communication consultant at the World Council of Churches in Geneva; and Dr. Olusimbo Ige, executive director of the Global Health unit of the General Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church, co-led the workshop on “Humanitarian and faith-based organizations link arms to protect vulnerable women and children” at RCC 2016.
“Religious communities are uniquely positioned to reach the most vulnerable communities” says Caterina Tino of @UNICEF#rcc16nyc
— Deily (@Deilytweet) April 2, 2016
Rudelmar Bueno de Faria, World Council of Churches representative to the United Nations and Coordinator of the UN Ecumenical Office in New York, Rev. Dr. Karin Achtelstetter, General Secretary of World Association for Christian Communications, Dr. Azza Karam, Senior Advisor on Culture and Social Development at the United Nations Population Fund, and Lt. Colonel (Dr.) Dean Pallant, Director of the Salvation Army’s International Social Justice Commission served as members of the United Nations Panel discussing “What’s Faith Got To Do With It?: Faith Organizations, the UN, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)” at RCC 2016.
“Faith-based orgs have been involved in development before the @UN was created” says Rudelmar Bueno de Faria of @Oikoumene at #rcc16nyc
— Deily (@Deilytweet) April 2, 2016
Lord George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1991 to 2002, served as a panelist for the “Intersections: Faith and the Global Community” keynote at RCC 2016.
The perfect closing to #rcc16nyc “All of us have a duty to bring out the best in our religious communities”says @ABGeorgeCarey@ReligionComm
— Deily (@Deilytweet) April 2, 2016
All photos and captions are courtesy of the Religion Communicators Council and George Conklin. You can see the full collection here.
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