Catholic Media Journal

After Pope Benedict’s April 17, 2008 address to Catholic University leaders, National Catholic Register’s Tim Drake returned from the Catholic University of America campus to the Media Center where I saw him doing a phone interview with Fr. Terence Henry, TOR, president of Franciscan University of Steubenville.

Later in the evening, Tim posted his first YouTube video [...]

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Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Washington today, and so did our Franciscan University of Steubenville Media crew. There are 12 of us, and after a late departure from Steubenville - I had to switch to another rental van because of mechanical difficulties - we arrived at the site of our first video story: The John Paul II Cultural Center near [...]

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The National Catholic Register’s website posted some comments by Fr. Owen Kerns, LC, Publisher of the Register, about some of the New Media work they’re doing - and mentioned some things we did in our Church & Media class last week in connection with Tim Drake’s Pope2008.com blog:
But here’s the most unusual attention [we've received about the blog]: Professor [...]

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As you scroll down this page, along the right side you’ll find feeds for 2 blogs devoted to Pope Benedict XVI’s April 15-20 visit to the United States. With the Pope’s visit several weeks away, bloggers are already sharing stories and information about the event. We’re reading about some of the behind-the-scenes preparations, seeing historic [...]

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As I’m writing this, the Catholic Blog Directory shows there are 1,281 Catholic Blogs. (I haven’t counted them myself.) Technorati today identifies 3,759 “blogs about Catholic” (as I was writing this sentence, 4 more “Catholic blogs” were added to the list). On February 11, Anne Helmond mentioned in The Blogherald that Technorati reported tracking 112.8 [...]

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