Crux (online newspaper)

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Crux
Type Online newspaper
Founder(s) The Boston Globe
John L. Allen Jr.
Editor John L. Allen Jr.
FoundedSeptember 2014;11 years ago (2014-09)
Website cruxnow.com

Crux is an online newspaper that focuses on news related to the Catholic Church. From September 2014 until March 2016, it was owned by The Boston Globe . Since April 2016, it has been independently owned.

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History

Crux was launched in September 2014, as part of a project by The Boston Globe to sponsor multiple specialized websites. [1] [2] [3] It covered the Catholic Church and numerous subjects concerning life as a Catholic in the United States, including advice columns. [2] Crux featured deep coverage of the Holy See and employed a Vatican correspondent in its six-person editorial staff. Its associate editor was John L. Allen Jr., a long-time and well-known Vatican watcher. [4] Allen, together with Inés San Martín, today Rome Bureau Chief of Crux, [5] and Shannon Levitt, associate editor, [6] were the original founders of Crux, as he has referred to the news outlet after The Boston Globe decided to pull the plug. [7]

On March 31, 2016, The Globe ended its association with Crux, citing a failure to bring in expected ad revenue, and transferred ownership of the website to the Crux staff. [8] With Allen as the new editor, Crux received sponsorship from the Knights of Columbus and several Catholic dioceses. [3] [4] [9] As of 2018, Allen remains the editor. [10]

Crux's news reports have been quoted in numerous media, including The New York Times and The Washington Post . [11] [10] [12] Writing in the Italian news magazine L'Espresso , journalist Sandro Magister described Crux as "the leading Catholic information portal in the United States and perhaps in the world." [13]

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References

  1. ↑ Justin Ellis. "Embrace the unbundling: The Boston Globe is betting it'll be stronger split up than unified". Nieman Journalism Lab . Retrieved August 13, 2018.
  2. 1 2 Meredith Goldstein; Mark Shanahan (July 31, 2014). "Margery Eagan leaves the Boston Herald, joins Crux". The Boston Globe . Retrieved July 31, 2014.
  3. 1 2 "About Crux", Crux, archived from the original on March 14, 2020, retrieved August 13, 2018
  4. 1 2 John L. Allen Jr. (April 1, 2016), "Editor's note on day one of 'Crux 2.0'", Crux, archived from the original on November 6, 2018, retrieved August 13, 2018
  5. ↑ "Ines San Martin". Crux. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
  6. ↑ "Shannon Levitt, Author at Crux". Crux. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  7. ↑ "Crux's "corporate resurrection": How the Catholic news site will live on beyond The Boston Globe". Nieman Lab. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  8. ↑ Green, Emma (11 March 2016). "The Boston Globe Bails on Crux and Religion Journalism". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2019-11-09.
  9. ↑ John L. Allen Jr. (March 31, 2017), "An editor's note on Crux's 'Independence Day'", Crux, archived from the original on November 9, 2019, retrieved August 13, 2018
  10. 1 2 Adam Baidawi (April 30, 2018), "Cardinal George Pell to Stand Trial on Historical Sex Offenses", The New York Times , retrieved August 13, 2018
  11. ↑ Jason Horowitz (December 20, 2017), "Cardinal Law and the U.S.-Rome Sex Abuse Divide", The New York Times , retrieved August 13, 2018
  12. ↑ Lori Johnston (March 30, 2018), "Pope Francis did not claim hell does not exist, Vatican says", The Washington Post , retrieved August 13, 2018
  13. ↑ Sandro Magister (August 25, 2018). "Homosexual Priests and Bishops. Neither "Healthy" Nor "Faithful"". L'Espresso . Retrieved August 26, 2018.
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