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The Pope and the Press

Columbia Journalism Review · Jon Allsop · last updated
In late February, with Pope Francis critically ill in the hospital, CJR’s Sacha Biazzo spoke with members of the Vaticanisti, the Italian term for the press corps that covers the pope. In many ways, he learned, the beat is a strange one: as recently as the nineties, the Vatican press office would check how long […]
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