Kathpress

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Kathpress (also Katholische Presseagentur ) is an Austrian news agency based in Vienna that has been producing news and reports from the area of ​​the Catholic Church in Austria since 1947. It works on behalf of the Austrian Bishops' Conference and is organized as a public corporation .

history

The Catholic Press Agency was founded in 1945 as the Catholic Press Center . It was initially an office of the pastoral office of the Archdiocese of Vienna . The Catholic press center was the successor to the Christian press center , which was dissolved in 1938 after the “ Anschluss ” of Austria .

From 1955 to 1980 Richard Barta (1911–1986) was editor-in-chief and thereafter, until his death, editor of the Catholic Press Agency. He was followed by Erich Leitenberger (* 1944), the press spokesman for the Archdiocese of Vienna.

Editor and editor

Paul Wuthe has been editor-in-chief and managing director since 2010. In addition to the editor-in-chief, the editorial team includes seven other editors.

The publisher is Cardinal Christoph Schönborn , who also acts as "media bishop" in the Austrian Bishops' Conference. The journalistic principles of Kathpress are according to their own statements: “Orientation towards the obligation to true, objective and comprehensive reporting; independent reporting; Solidarity with the church; party political independence ”.

Products and customers

Kathpress offers an agency service for media customers as well as its own media appointment service, various PDF services ("Tagesdienst", "Info-Dienst", "Wochendienst", "Ordensnews") and online services (archive, "KathIndex"). ).

Kathpress customers include Austrian newspapers, radio and television broadcasters, online media as well as numerous companies, associations, institutions and private individuals.

Center Informationis Catholicum

Together with the German Catholic News Agency KNA and the Swiss Catholic Media Center KATH.CH , Kathpress maintains a correspondent office in Rome, the Centrum Informationis Catholicum (CIC), which was founded in 1962 at the beginning of the Second Vatican Council .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Norbert readers : Religion and culture at times of change. On God's footsteps in Austria . Herold, Vienna 1984, ISBN 3-7008-0257-9 , p. 363.
  2. ↑ Maximilian Liebmann , Dieter A. Binder (ed.): Hanns Sassmann for his 60th birthday. Festival of the House of Styria . Verlag Styria, Graz 1984, ISBN 3-222-11600-8 , p. 18.
  3. ↑ Kathpress: Publicist Richard Barta died 30 years ago. In: Daily service. Retrieved January 31, 2017 .
  4. ↑ "Kathpress" gets a new editor-in-chief . ( derstandard.at [accessed on January 31, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Paul Wuthe is the new "Kathpress" managing director . ( derstandard.at [accessed on January 31, 2017]).
  6. ↑ a b See legal notice on the Kathpress website (last accessed on January 31, 2017)
  7. ^ Kathpress: Kathpress | Products, offers & services. Retrieved January 31, 2017 .
  8. ↑ 50 years “Centrum Informationis Catholicum” (CIC) , accessed on March 16, 2017.