Catholic News Agency

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The Catholic News Agency (CNA) is a news service owned by Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) [1] that provides news related to the Catholic Church to a global Anglophone audience. It was founded in 2004 in Denver, Colorado, United States as the English section of the worldwide ACI Group, which publishes the Spanish-language news service ACI Prensa  [ es ]. It was acquired by EWTN in 2014. [2] It is now based in Washington, D.C.

Contents

In 2011, CNA said its editors would provide free news, features, commentary, and photojournalism to editors of newspapers. [3]

Leadership

As of January 2023, CNA's executive director is Jeanette De Melo, the longtime editor-in-chief of the National Catholic Register , which is also owned by EWTN. De Melo currently serves as executive director of both the Register and CNA. [4]

CNA was led by editor-in-chief J.D. Flynn from Aug. 1, 2017 until Dec. 31, 2020, when he departed with Washington bureau chief Ed Condon to form The Pillar . [5] [6]

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References

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