Religion & Ethics Newsweekly Returns For Its Thirteenth Season

Acclaimed PBS Series Offers One-of-a-Kind Television News Coverage of Religion
NEW YORK--(Business Wire)--
As today`s top headlines reveal, dealing with faith, religion and ethics has
never been more important to communities across the U.S. and worldwide. But
network news offers only limited coverage of such issues. For more than a
decade, RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY, anchored by veteran journalist Bob
Abernethy, has been providing distinctive, exhaustive, one-of-a-kind coverage of
religion`s role in American life, international news, and major ethical issues.
September fourth marks the start of the thirteenth season of this half-hour
weekly program.

Religion & Ethics Newsweekly is a production of WNET.ORG - one of America`s most
prolific and respected public media providers.

Since 1997, an award-winning team of correspondents, including Lucky Severson,
Fred de Sam Lazaro, Saul Gonzalez, Tim O`Brien, Deborah Potter, Betty Rollin,
and Mary Alice Williams, along with host Bob Abernethy and managing editor Kim
Lawton, have traveled around the country and the globe to cover stories on such
topics such as Middle East peace prospects, the ethics of privatized genetic
testing, the split in the Episcopal church over homosexuality, religion`s role
in American politics and in helping people cope with the recession. Studio
discussions featuring newsmakers, scholars and policy analysts have also offered
insightful perspectives on subjects ranging from bioethics to Vatican policies
to Wall Street and faith.

Winner of more than 145 awards - including the Sigma Delta Chi, the Gracie
Allen, the Chicago TV Fest, New York Festival, and CINE Golden Eagle - the
program has been hailed by the Religion Newswriters` Association for setting "a
national standard for balanced and fair coverage of religious topics." The
program`s Web site, www.pbs.org/religionandethics, has also been nationally
recognized for its online creativity, innovation and content, winning a
prestigious Webby Award in 2009 from the International Academy of Digital Arts
and Sciences.

Major funding for RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLYis provided by Lilly Endowment
Inc. with additional support from Mutual of America Life Insurance Company, The
Henry Luce Foundation, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and individual
supporters. Arnold Labaton is Executive producer; Bob Abernethy, host/Executive
Editor; Stephen Segaller, Executive-in-Charge, WNET.ORG; Phil O`Conner,
Supervising Producer; Kim Lawton, Managing Editor; Information can be found at
www.pbs.org/religionandethics.

About WNET.ORG

New York public media company WNET.ORG is a pioneering provider of television
and web content. The parent of Thirteen, WLIW21 and Creative News Group,
WNET.ORG brings such acclaimed broadcast series and websites as Worldfocus,
Nature, Great Performances, American Masters, Charlie Rose, Wide Angle, Secrets
of the Dead, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, Visions, Consuelo Mack WealthTrack,
Wild Chronicles,Miffy and Friends, and Cyberchase to national and international
audiences. Through its wide range of channels and platforms, WNET.ORG serves the
entire New York City metro area with unique local productions, broadcasts and
innovative educational and cultural projects. In all that it does, WNET.ORG
pursues a single, overarching goal - to create media experiences of lasting
significance for New York, America and the world. For more information, visit
www.wnet.org.

WNET.ORG
Roberta Lee, 212-560-3134
LeeR@WNET.ORG

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