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Companion blog to The Catholic Sun, newspaper of the Diocese of Phoenix.
March 23, 2009

Assignment notes: YouTube and ‘Whispers’

Posted by : J.D. Long-García
Filed under : From the Staff, Video

You may have noticed that The Catholic Sun is trying to do more with video. When we meet as an editorial team, we ask ourselves “Which of these stories would make for good video?” Oftentimes there’s a lot of stories, but we just don’t have the time and training to pull together videos for every [...]


January 30, 2009

Vatican goes YouTube

Posted by : J.D. Long-García

I stumbled across this news while I was picking out a story for La Comunidad. The Vatican YouTube channel will have audio in English, Italian, Spanish and German. According to Archbishop Claudio Celli, president of the Pontifical Council of Social Communication, the move signals that the Vatican is working “to be present wherever the people [...]


October 3, 2008

Reporting from the Middle East

Posted by : admin

If you can’t find The Catholic Sun’s managing editor for the next couple of weeks, it’s because he’s in the Middle East, as evidenced in the video above. (Also here.) Last Spring, J.D. Long-García, was named a winner of the distinguished 2008 Egan Award for Journalistic Excellence. He is one of a handful of Catholic [...]


October 2, 2008

Sanctity of Life Video

Posted by : admin
Filed under : From the Staff, Video

The Diocese of Phoenix celebrates Respect Life Sunday Oct. 5. Most parishes throughout the diocese will screen this video featuring Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted urging Catholics to support pro-life efforts throughout the state, including non-profit VirtueMedia, a Christian values-based not-for-profit that creates and broadcasts effective, compassionate, and educational Sanctity of Life media messages, to bring about [...]