Deborah Caldwell is CEO of Religion News Foundation and Publisher of Religion News Service. She serves as the main point of contact for the RNF and RNS Boards, as well as grantors, oversees all RNF and RNS operations, leads development efforts, and manages long-term strategic planning.
Caldwell joined RNF/RNS in 2020 and previously served as Vice President of Content Marketing at Bank of America. She also previously held executive positions at Time Inc. — including digital managing editor at FORTUNE and digital assistant managing editor at MONEY — as well as at CNBC and Reader’s Digest Association.
Earlier in her career, Caldwell spent 20 years as an award-winning religion and politics specialist. She was a founding team member and Vice President of Content at Beliefnet, a Web 1.0 startup ultimately sold to News Corp. At Beliefnet, she helped guide the staff to multiple Webby Awards, the Online News Association Award for General Excellence and the National Magazine Award for General Excellence Online. Before that, she was a senior writer at The Dallas Morning News, where she won a Templeton Award for national religion reporting. Deborah was also a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan.
