20 to receive group’s top honors for 2024 work
The Religion Communicators Council (RCC) proudly declares the 2025 Wilbur Award recipients, recognizing distinctive work by 20 media stores carried out in 2024 by the secular (non-non secular) media in the fields of print and on-line journalism, guide publishing, podcasts and radio, tv and film.
The Wilbur Award is the tip honor supplied by the RCC and is offered yearly to detect the most eminent work in the communication of non secular disorders, values, and issues in secular media. Every winner will receive an in my notion crafted stained-glass Wilbur trophy.
The RCC has offered Wilbur Awards yearly since 1949. Secular communicators enter work in a number of categories. Juries of media mavens, coordinated by council people all the draw in which by draw of the nation, take discover of submissions on squawk material, creativity, influence and excellence in speaking non secular values. The award is named for the gradual Marvin C. Wilbur, a pioneer in non secular public family members, longtime council leader and ragged Presbyterian Church government.
In deciding on the Wilbur honorees, judges from throughout the U.S. take discover of squawk material and creativity, execution and outcomes. The ultimate criterion is brilliance in communication about faith and religion with equity and professionalism, honesty and respect.
The awards will likely be offered Friday, April 25, in Salt Lake Metropolis all the draw in which by draw of the RCC’s annual conference, “Bridging Beliefs: Cooperation Via Communication.” The Wilbur Award presentation is birth to the general public at a mark of $125 per particular person; these in attending can register at Religion Communicators Council (rccregistration.org); more referring to the conference is also posted at that situation. Mavens in the discipline of non secular communication are inspired to reduction the beefy conference and take advantage of an early-fowl reduce worth that ends on Friday March 14.
Per Teresa Faust, president of RCC’s Board of Governors, “Since 1949, the RCC has offered the Wilbur Awards to detect excellence in the secular media in speaking about faith and religion. This twelve months’s Wilbur recipients continue that successfully off custom of excellence.”
She provides, “I support anyone working in the communications discipline to reduction the Wilbur award presentation, because it is if fact be told a celebration of interesting tales as suggested by about a of the ideal professional secular communicators working at the sleek time.”
RCC’s Wilbur Award coordinator and RCC Board of Governors member Brad Pomerance notes, “I’m impressed with the entries this twelve months, which are heartening in how they potential issues of faith, no longer merely as a topic with a desire to foster working out and connectedness. Their work reflects our conference’s theme of ‘cooperation by draw of communication’ and is proof of the most well-known feature of communication in building bridges among various teams.”
The Wilbur honorees consist of: Abraham’s Bridge; The Associated Press; The Baltimore Banner; Being Jewish with Jonah Platt; Bo Media, CBC Radio; CBS 60 Minutes; CBS Sunday Morning; The Epoch Times; Increased Grove Corridor Valuable Avenue/Boston Herald; Harper’s Journal; Hasidic Archives; Hiya Jude Productions; Nationwide Public Radio; NPR News; Pittsburgh Put up-Gazette; The Politzer Foundation; Religion News Service; San Francisco Memoir. The 2025 Wilbur award recipients’ puny print will likely be posted on the RCC web situation following the award presentation in April.
As successfully as to the 20 Wilbur winning entries, RCC will also be honoring 44 Award of Excellence Recipients and 25 Award of Advantage Honorees; these awards will soon be offered. The Award of Excellence is for entries deemed to be of very unbiased correct quality and no doubt principal of recognition and the Award of Advantage, which is offered for work deemed meritorious and principal of acknowledgment.
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About the Religion Communicators Council
The Religion Communicators Council (RCC), based in 1929, is an affiliation of communications mavens who work for and with a various neighborhood of faith-based entirely organizations in the areas of communications, public family members, marketing and grace.
About the 2025 RCC Annual Convention
“Bridging Beliefs: Cooperation Via Communication” will likely be held April 24-26 in Salt Lake Metropolis. Classes consist of media panel, interfaith panel, AI presentations, media practising workshop, the “Dignity Index,” faith and entertainment, telling principal tales of faith, and both the DeRose-Hinkhouse Memorial Awards and the Wilbur Awards. Several registration strategies are equipped, collectively with the beefy conference, single day and neighborhood charges; registration puny print and the on-line place are posted here.
Contact:
Ginny Hizer
Religion Communicators Council (RCC)
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