Converged identities? How US evangelical journalists negotiate religious identity and journalistic professional identity

Journalism studies scholarship has consistently troubled the relationship between journalists’ professional identity and various aspects of their personal identity. This study explores how a pivotal aspect of personal identity — religious identity — interacts with journalistic identity. Through the case of US evangelicalism, this study explores how evangelical journalists ( n = 29) negotiate their identities. It finds that evangelical journalists conceive of their identities as working in harmony, perceiving their journalistic values as both professional and deeply religious.