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Cecile Holmes

A Columbia native and veteran journalist, Holmes most recently served as religion editor of the Houston Chronicle, writing, editing and overseeing coverage of that topic for the nation's sixth largest daily newspaper. During her tenure, the newspaper's religion section was recognized as one of the country’s most outstanding in the annual awards program of the Religion Newswriters Association. Active in other media organizations, Holmes is a past president of the RNA. In the 1980s, she was a fellow in the Program in Religious Studies for Journalists, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In 1998, she was a Visiting Scholar, Hearst Fellowship, University of Texas, Austin.

While Holmes was with the Houston Chronicle, the paper nominated her work six times for a Pulitzer Prize. She won a Wilbur Award for her coverage of Pope John Paul II’s 1998 papal visit to Cuba. In her more than 20 years of newspaper work, Holmes has written news and features, working as a general assignment and specialty writer. Before joining the Chronicle, she worked at the Greensboro News & Record in Greensboro, N.C. She is a regular contributor to Religion News Service, the Washington, D.C.,-based interfaith wire service and the author of Witnesses to the Horror: North Carolinians Remember the Holocaust.

Holmes is an assistant professor in the Electronic and Print Sequence of the University of South Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communications.

Titles by Cecile Holmes

Four Women, Three Faiths
ISBN 1-891799-61-4
Softcover - $16.95
Pages: 165, Size: 7.25 x 5





Cecile Holmes Web site: www.cecileholmes.com A Columbia native and veteran journalist, Holmes most recently served as religion editor of the Houston Chronicle, writing, editing and overseeing coverage of that topic for the nation's sixth largest daily newspaper. During her tenure, the newspaper's religion section was recognized as one of the country’s most outstanding in the annual awards program of the Religion Newswriters Association. Active in other media organizations, Holmes is a past president of the RNA. In the 1980s, she was a fellow in the Program in Religious Studies for Journalists, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In 1998, she was a Visiting Scholar, Hearst Fellowship, University of Texas, Austin. While Holmes was with the Houston Chronicle, the paper nominated her work six times for a Pulitzer Prize. She won a Wilbur Award for her coverage of Pope John Paul II’s 1998 papal visit to Cuba. In her more than 20 years of newspaper work, Holmes has written news and features, working as a general assignment and specialty writer. Before joining the Chronicle, she worked at the Greensboro News & Record in Greensboro, N.C. She is a regular contributor to Religion News Service, the Washington, D.C.,-based interfaith wire service and the author of Witnesses to the Horror: North Carolinians Remember the Holocaust. Holmes is an assistant professor in the Electronic and Print Sequence of the University of South Carolina School of Journalism and Mass Communications. Titles by Cecile Holmes Four Women, Three Faiths ISBN 1-891799-61-4 Softcover - $16.95 Pages: 165, Size: 7.25 x 5	Mike S. Adams Marshall B. Allen, Jr. Karl Berger Ann Herlong-Bodman Ron Braithwaite Jim Daher Rich Everitt E. Randall Floyd David Healey Cecile Holmes George Holmes Scott A. Johnson Phil Kent Robert Lamb Terry Leiden Sharron Martin Joan McCall Susan Mucha N.J. Nidiffer Robert K. Oldham Elizabeth Pool William Rawlings, Jr. James P. Reger Brewster Milton Robertson Steve Ruthenbeck David Sheldon Jessica Swan Rick Turnbull Percy Walters Eleanor West Naomi Williams Robbie Williams Jock Young

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