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> Kevin Eckstrom

> Editor, Religion News Service

> RCCongress 2010 Workshop:

> Panelist for Changing Society, Changing Media

Kevin Eckstrom joined the Religion News Service (RNS) staff in
February, 2000 and became editor in 2006.

Prior to coming to RNS, he worked as religion editor at the
Stuart/Port St. Lucie News in Florida. He was the winner of the 2000
Cassels Award for small newspapers from the Religion Newswriters
Association. Under his leadership, RNS was named Best Wire Service by
the Associated Church Press for both 2006 and 2007 ? the only time RNS
has won back-to-back years.

Eckstrom holds a M.S. from Columbia University's Graduate School of
Journalism and a B.A. from The George Washington University. Eckstrom
was the president of the Religion Newswriters Association from
2007-2009 and was the inaugural Dewitt Wallace Fellow in Islamic
Studies at Duke University in 2009. He is also an adjunct professor of
journalism at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

? Religion newswriters are facing the same seismic shifts affecting
the news industry and all too often religion is incorrectly seen as an
expendable specialty beat. ?

> ~ Kevin Eckstrom

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