All New PUBLISHING UNIVERSITY: November 4-6, 2007
Publicity Track
Session 5:
Nov 6th, 10:30 am to 12:00 pm
Panel Members: Lynn Garrett (Publisher’s Weekly), Mark Galli (Christianity Today), Jane Struck (Today’s Christian Woman), Ed Grinnan (Guideposts)
Session Title: Religious Media Panel
This panel features editors from Christianity Today, Guideposts, Today’s Christian Woman and Publishers Weekly. Combined readership of these four magazines is almost three million! Topics for this panel will range from the current realities of magazine publishing and their corresponding online presence to tips for effective pitching of each publication. The insights from this panel will address both trade and consumer magazines, with the publicists’ concerns in mind.
Panel Member Bios:
Lynn Garrett
Lynn Garrett has been the religion editor of Publishers Weekly since 1995. She joined PW in 1994 as founding editor of Religion BookLine, then a print tabloid and now a biweekly e-mail newsletter that has taken the trade journal’s religion coverage beyond an industry audience to consumers who are interested in religion/spirituality books and publishing. During her tenure at PW she also helped launch Religion Update, a themed quarterly supplement to the magazine that offers additional features, profiles and reviews. Previously a freelance writer, corporate communications consultant and book editor in scientific and technical publishing, Ms. Garrett holds a master’s degree in religion and a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature. Frequently called upon as an expert commentator on religion publishing, she is often quoted in newspapers and magazines and has been interviewed on CNN, NPR, PBS, Fox News and ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
Mark Galli
Mark Galli is the senior managing editor of Christianity Today, where he's been since 2000. Before that, he did editing stints at Christian History and Leadership. He is a graduate of U.C. Santa Cruz and Fuller Theological Seminary. His list of published books suggest he still doesn’t know what he wants to write about when he grows up: He is co-author of the Preaching That Connects (Zondervan, 1995) and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Prayer (Alpha, 2001); and author of Francis of Assisi and His World (Lion/InterVarsity, 2001), and Jesus Mean and Wild: The Unexpected Love of an Untamable God (Baker, 2006). He also enjoys golf and fly fishing, when he can find the time.
Jane Johnson Struck,
Editor of Today’s Christian Woman magazine and Executive Editor of MOMSense. Jane has a B.A. in literature from Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. She has been Merchandising Manager of the lifestyle magazine Sphere (the Betty Crocker magazine), Assistant Editor of Christian Life magazine (the current Charisma), and Editor of Christian Bookseller magazine (today Christian Retailing). Before coming on staff with Today's Christian Woman magazine almost 20 years ago, Jane was a magazine writing instructor with the Christian Writers Institute and an active freelancer. Currently she is Editor of TODAY'S CHRISTIAN WOMAN magazine, has been Executive Editor of CHRISTIAN PARENTING TODAY, and serves as Executive Editor of on behalf of Christianity Today International for MOPS’s publication, MOMSense. Jane loves travel and has ridden “two-up” from Chicago to Yellowstone on her husband Rich’s BMW motorcycle for fun.
Richard N. Ostling
Richard N. Ostling spent three decades with “Time” magazine as a staff correspondent, senior correspondent and the longtime religion writer, producing 23 cover stories. He then worked eight years at The Associated Press as a religion writer and weekly Bible columnist, and is now a freelance writer. With wife Joan he is the co-author of the critically acclaimed “Mormon America: The Power and the Promise” (HarperOne, revised edition 2007). He has also covered religion part-time for CBS Radio and PBS television’s “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.” His honors in the field include the American Academy of Religion, Supple, and Templeton prizes and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Religion Newswriters Association (the organization for specialists in the general or “secular” media). Ostling is a graduate of the University of Michigan (With High Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa) and holds master’s degrees from the George Washington University, in religion, and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, which named him a charter member of its Alumni Hall of Achievement.
Ed Grinnan
Session 5:
Nov 6th, 10:30 am to 12:00 pm
Panel Members: Lynn Garrett (Publisher’s Weekly), Mark Galli (Christianity Today), Jane Struck (Today’s Christian Woman), Ed Grinnan (Guideposts)
Session Title: Religious Media Panel
This panel features editors from Christianity Today, Guideposts, Today’s Christian Woman and Publishers Weekly. Combined readership of these four magazines is almost three million! Topics for this panel will range from the current realities of magazine publishing and their corresponding online presence to tips for effective pitching of each publication. The insights from this panel will address both trade and consumer magazines, with the publicists’ concerns in mind.
Panel Member Bios:
Lynn Garrett
Lynn Garrett has been the religion editor of Publishers Weekly since 1995. She joined PW in 1994 as founding editor of Religion BookLine, then a print tabloid and now a biweekly e-mail newsletter that has taken the trade journal’s religion coverage beyond an industry audience to consumers who are interested in religion/spirituality books and publishing. During her tenure at PW she also helped launch Religion Update, a themed quarterly supplement to the magazine that offers additional features, profiles and reviews. Previously a freelance writer, corporate communications consultant and book editor in scientific and technical publishing, Ms. Garrett holds a master’s degree in religion and a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature. Frequently called upon as an expert commentator on religion publishing, she is often quoted in newspapers and magazines and has been interviewed on CNN, NPR, PBS, Fox News and ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
Mark Galli
Mark Galli is the senior managing editor of Christianity Today, where he's been since 2000. Before that, he did editing stints at Christian History and Leadership. He is a graduate of U.C. Santa Cruz and Fuller Theological Seminary. His list of published books suggest he still doesn’t know what he wants to write about when he grows up: He is co-author of the Preaching That Connects (Zondervan, 1995) and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Prayer (Alpha, 2001); and author of Francis of Assisi and His World (Lion/InterVarsity, 2001), and Jesus Mean and Wild: The Unexpected Love of an Untamable God (Baker, 2006). He also enjoys golf and fly fishing, when he can find the time.
Jane Johnson Struck,
Editor of Today’s Christian Woman magazine and Executive Editor of MOMSense. Jane has a B.A. in literature from Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. She has been Merchandising Manager of the lifestyle magazine Sphere (the Betty Crocker magazine), Assistant Editor of Christian Life magazine (the current Charisma), and Editor of Christian Bookseller magazine (today Christian Retailing). Before coming on staff with Today's Christian Woman magazine almost 20 years ago, Jane was a magazine writing instructor with the Christian Writers Institute and an active freelancer. Currently she is Editor of TODAY'S CHRISTIAN WOMAN magazine, has been Executive Editor of CHRISTIAN PARENTING TODAY, and serves as Executive Editor of on behalf of Christianity Today International for MOPS’s publication, MOMSense. Jane loves travel and has ridden “two-up” from Chicago to Yellowstone on her husband Rich’s BMW motorcycle for fun.
Richard N. Ostling
Richard N. Ostling spent three decades with “Time” magazine as a staff correspondent, senior correspondent and the longtime religion writer, producing 23 cover stories. He then worked eight years at The Associated Press as a religion writer and weekly Bible columnist, and is now a freelance writer. With wife Joan he is the co-author of the critically acclaimed “Mormon America: The Power and the Promise” (HarperOne, revised edition 2007). He has also covered religion part-time for CBS Radio and PBS television’s “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.” His honors in the field include the American Academy of Religion, Supple, and Templeton prizes and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Religion Newswriters Association (the organization for specialists in the general or “secular” media). Ostling is a graduate of the University of Michigan (With High Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa) and holds master’s degrees from the George Washington University, in religion, and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, which named him a charter member of its Alumni Hall of Achievement.
Ed Grinnan
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