Religion News Service, perhaps America’s most important wire service for faith and belief, is experiencing a meltdown. On April 20, its editor in chief was dismissed without warning. Resignations from two more veteran editorial staffers followed—a significant hit for a lean newsroom. A key fundraiser and a business manager had left the outlet earlier. Is covering the God beat still a viable business model?
Faith certainly wasn’t translating into enough clicks for RNS, which is why it hired a lawyer with minimal newsroom experience...