Kevin Eckstrom

Editor, Religion News Service

RCCongress 2010 Panelist:

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.

Media Panel: How Social Change is Changing Media Coverage of Religion

Panelists will discuss how social, religious or media change has affected their work as journalists; how they've adapted reporting to new media models of communication; the role religion plays in today's media landscape; and the social (including religious) changes they anticipate reporting on in the next six months.