This chapter explores newsroom barriers to covering religion well, and draws on a series of interviews with journalists and editors generally believed to be doing well at connecting religion and journalism. It highlights the need for journalists to examine the religious language and labels that they use; the need for diversity of religious knowledge and awareness in newsrooms; the role of editors in offering better training and resources both to religion reporters per se and others whose work veers into religious territory; and the need to strive to get inside the daily lives and mindset of the people covered.
Keywords: newsroom, editors, journalists, religion, barriers, language,