Tim Townsend
Reporter
Since 2004 I’ve been the religion reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In 2005 I was the Templeton Religion Reporter of the Year, awarded by the Religion Newswriters Association for “excellence in enterprise reporting and versatility in the field of religion in the secular press.”
Before moving to St. Louis, I covered personal finance and consumer issues for The Wall Street Journal Sunday. My freelance writing has been published in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review, The Village Voice, Golf World and Salon.com.
Publications
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- The New York Times
- salon.com
- Esquire
- Commonweal
- Chicago Tribune
- The Boston Globe
- rolling stone
- Columbia Journalism Review
- Village Voice
Work Experience
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch Religion Reporter 06/2004 - present ( > 4 yrs )
- The Wall Street Journal Reporting Assistant 08/1999 - 03/2002 ( > 2 yrs )
Education
- Yale Divinity School M.A. - Religion 2004
- Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism M.S. - Journalism 1999
- Boston College B.A. - English 1991