RELIGION NEWS SERVICE REPORTER INVITED TO BE PROFESSIONAL IN RESIDENCE
Banks to Visit University of Colorado at Boulder
Washington, April 1, 2009 -- Religion News Service senior correspondent Adelle M. Banks (pictured) will be a professional in residence this month at the University of Colorado at Boulder's School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Banks, a veteran religion reporter who has been a writer for RNS since 1995, was invited to the school by its dean, Paul S. Voakes. She will spend two days in early April as a Hearst Professional in Residence, speaking to journalism classes and meeting with students and faculty.
"Adelle is the kind of reporter you don't want to leave the office for very long, and we'll struggle to get by when she's in Colorado," said RNS editor Kevin Eckstrom. "But the students in Boulder will be lucky to have her, and there's a lot to learn from her."
The journalism school has 600 undergraduate students studying advertising and broadcast, print and online news gathering. It offers master's and Ph.D. programs and is the site of the Center for Media, Religion and Culture. Its Hearst program is funded through an endowment from the Hearst Foundation.
Prior to working for RNS, Banks was a reporter for newspapers in the upstate New York communities of Binghamton and Syracuse; The Providence Journal and the Orlando Sentinel. She has been a third-place winner in the Religion Newswriters Association's Templeton Religion Reporter of the Year contest and a multiple winner of honors from Associated Church Press. She is a former board member of the Religion Newswriters Association.
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