...correspondent and announced a tie-in with beliefnet.com, an interfaith Web site that has laid off its news producer. Peggy Wehmeyer of ABC and Ira Rifkin of beliefnet.com confirmed that they were released from their respective workplaces because...

...We need to understand this." ABC News was the only American network to have a full-time religion reporter, Peggy Wehmeyer, but the job was eliminated several years ago. Now there are none. "I may be biased, but I think that's a mistake...

...employ full-time religion correspondents - and virtually never have. The first and last person to fill that role, Peggy Wehmeyer, worked for ABC News until leaving a few years ago. Her duties were transferred to Dan Harris and Bill Blakemore...