VATICAN CITY
NPR
by Bill Chappell
Seeking to modernize and widen its dealings with the media, the Vatican has hired Fox News Channel’s Rome correspondent to advise its press office. The move will put journalist Greg Burke, who is also a member of Opus Dei, into a new role working with Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi.
For NPR’s Newscast desk, Sylvia Poggioli reports from Rome:
“Greg Burke, 52, has been with Fox 10 years, and he’ll be the first Vatican communications expert with experience outside the world of Catholic media.
Last week, the pope’s right hand man, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone. accused the media of ‘pettiness and lies.'”
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