We recently announced the departure of Richard Ostling, news editor, who has joined Time magazine in its religion section. We are now happy to announce the appointment of Mr. Ostling’s successor. He is Russell Chandler, 36, who comes to us May 1 from the post of religious news editor of the Washington Evening Star.
Mr. Chandler was a journalism intern at CHRISTIANITY TODAY while studying under a fellowship at the Washington Journalism Center. He is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles and holds the B.D. degree from Princeton Theological Seminary, where he ranked second in his class. He has also studied at New College, Edinburgh, and at the University of California Graduate School of Religion. Mr. Chandler formerly served at two Presbyterian churches in California, youth minister of one and pastor of the other. Then he became religion editor and general reporter for the Modesto Bee. He follows two especially gifted reporters who served CHRISTIANITY TODAY for twelve years. David Kucharsky, who was news editor for ten years, is now associate editor; Mr. Ostling served for three and a half years, first as assistant and then as news editor.
We welcome Mr. Chandler to the magazine family, confident that the tradition of first-rate religious news reporting established by his predecessors will be carried on with dignity and ability.
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