Lee professor launches faith-based news website
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Associate Professor of Art Rondall Reynoso recently launched Faith on View Daily, a Christian news website seeking to bring news to a Christian audience.
Reynoso first launched Faith on View as a personal blog in 2011. Since its initial launch, the website has expanded to include other contributors including Reynoso’s wife Pamela, who co-owns and writes for the website, their son Mateo and four contributing writers from various Christian and political perspectives.
Reynoso was inspired to expand Faith on View to provide news in the summer of 2020. After reading an article about writing a newsletter in the tech field, Reynoso mentioned the idea of creating a newsletter to his son. Together, they started the Faith on View Daily newsletter.
Mateo Reynoso, a sophomore business administration major and editor of the newsletter, said, “The purpose of the newsletter is to give an area where devoted Christians can go to and get the news that directly pertains to them as quickly as possible.”
Faith on View is a daily newsletter available via email that includes news updates from several Christian media sources and stories pulled from as many as 200 sources.
While working on the newsletter, Reynoso got the idea to launch Faith on View Daily as an expansion to his original website.
“In the process of doing that, looking at a lot of different pages where I could get information from, I realized there was a — what I perceived to be — a space that we could exist to do something like the Faith on View Daily page,” Reynoso said.
In December, Reynoso approached Vershal Hogan, a contributing author for Faith on View and newspaper editor in southern Arkansas, to be the editor of Faith on View Daily.
“There was a need to offer something a little different than what was already out there,” Hogan said. “In the faith-based news world, they tend to have an audience that’s just theirs, and we were trying to find something that aggregates news from across the spectrum, that’s more than one group’s denominational news or someone else’s. We wanted to find a place where all of these different sources could kind of coalesce into a single stream instead of being strictly for their audience without an editorial slant.”
Along with sourcing news stories and presenting them to a Christian audience, the Faith on View Daily team emphasizes the importance of sharing multiple perspectives when reporting.
“We’re intentionally trying to bridge that kind of news that’s both conservative and progressive, and everywhere in between,” Reynoso said.
