﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title>Cision News</title><link>https://news.cision.com</link><description>Cision is the leading global provider of media research, distribution, monitoring and evaluation services. With over 40 locations throughout the world, Cision provides the insight, expertise and intelligence that improve performance and build reputations.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:31:53 GMT</pubDate><image><title>Cision News</title><width>146</width><height>60</height><link>https://news.cision.com</link><url>https://news.cision.com/Content/img/news-logo.png</url></image><item><title>News Coverage of Rumors about Obama’s Religion Wrongly Fuse Arab Ethnicity, Islam and Terrorism, Baylor Researchers Find</title><link>http://news.cision.com/baylor-university/r/news-coverage-of-rumors-about-obama-s-religion-wrongly-fuse-arab-ethnicity--islam-and-terrorism--baylor-researchers-find,g532214</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision288160</guid><description><![CDATA[WACO, Texas - Despite reporters’ goal of objectivity, some broadcast accounts and articles about rumors that President Barack Obama is Muslim suggest that being an Arab or a Muslim automatically is “a sinister accusation,” according to a study by Baylor University researchers published online in the American Communication Journal.

The article - “Barack Hussein Obama: Campaigning While (Allegedly) Muslim” - was written by Dr. Mia Moody, an assistant professor of journalism and media arts at Baylor University, and Aisha Tariq of Houston, who earned a master’s degree in international]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:52:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Constitutional Law vs. Congressional Politics: What America's Founding Fathers Did Not Anticipate</title><link>http://news.cision.com/baylor-university/r/constitutional-law-vs--congressional-politics--what-america-s-founding-fathers-did-not-anticipate,g527412</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision284655</guid><description><![CDATA[How far should individuals or churches be able to push free exercise of religion -- especially when it comes to accommodating prisoners with unconventional beliefs and congregations whose ministries and missions may not jibe with restrictions on land use?
How and why the proposed Religious Liberty Protection Act was crafted, how it was scuttled in 1999 and how it underwent a major transformation to win Congress' approval and become federal law is the topic of a new book by Dr. Jerold Waltman, R.W. Morrison Professor of Constitutional Studies at Baylor University.

The book -- Religious]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:46:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The New "Normal" Paranormal - Just in Time for Halloween</title><link>http://news.cision.com/baylor-university/r/the-new--normal--paranormal---just-in-time-for-halloween,g520821</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision280339</guid><description><![CDATA[Baylor University Researchers Say a Growing Number of Conventional People are Exploring the Paranormal
Baylor University sociologists Dr. Carson Mencken and Dr. Christopher Bader lay on the ground at 1 a.m., shivering in 19-degree weather in a Texas forest with a group of hushed men hoping to lure Bigfoot.

Then one hunter pushed a button, triggering piercing howls — purportedly a recording of Bigfoot sounds — from a huge speaker mounted atop a tree.

“Animals were freaked out,” Mencken said. “Things were rustling around in the woods that probably sounded bigger than they are . . . Very]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>HAUNTED HOUSES, BIGFOOT AND UFOs: WHO BELIEVES IT?</title><link>http://news.cision.com/baylor-university/r/haunted-houses--bigfoot-and-ufos--who-believes-it-,g517997</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision278584</guid><description><![CDATA[BAYLOR UNIVERSITY SOCIOLOGISTS STUDY AMERICA'S PROTAGONISTS OF THE PARANORMAL
Baylor University sociologists Dr. Carson Mencken and Dr. Christopher Bader lay on the ground at 1 a.m., shivering in 19-degree December weather in a Texas forest with a group of hushed men who were hoping to lure Bigfoot.
Then one hunter pushed a button, triggering piercing howls — purportedly a recording of Bigfoot sounds — from a huge speaker mounted atop a tree.
“Animals were freaked out,” Mencken said. “Things were rustling around in the woods that probably sounded bigger than they are. There were mooing]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:54:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Congregations Struggle to Keep Racially Diverse Members</title><link>http://news.cision.com/baylor-university/r/congregations-struggle-to-keep-racially-diverse-members,g515979</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision277266</guid><description><![CDATA[One of the Rev. Martin Luther King’s famous statements was that 11 a.m. Sunday morning was “the most segregated hour of Christian America.”

More than half a century later — despite myriad task forces, initiatives and informal efforts by church leaders and congregations to increase racial diversity in the pews — nine in 10 congregations have a single racial group that accounts for more than 80 percent of their membership, said Dr. Kevin Dougherty, assistant professor of sociology at Baylor University.

Equally significant is that congregations that manage to attract worshippers of other]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 19:04:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>From Textbooks to Twitter</title><link>http://news.cision.com/baylor-university/r/from-textbooks-to-twitter,g504640</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cision270462</guid><description><![CDATA[Teachers have been too slow to incorporate social media -- which can be an attention-grabbing and effective teaching method -- into their courses, according to research by an assistant professor of journalism and media arts at Baylor University.

Adding social media to lectures, textbooks and traditional discussion groups not only prepares students for current and future communication trends, but it gives those who are too shy to talk in front of their classmates an opportunity to open up via the Web, said Dr. Mia Moody in the current issue of Journal of Magazine & New Media Research.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:05:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>