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:''Not to be confused with the National Catholic Register'' The ''National Catholic Reporter'' (NCR) is a newspaper in the United States which covers topics on the Catholic Church. Based in midtown Kansas City, Missouri, NCR was founded by Robert Hoyt in 1964 as an independent newspaper focusing on the Catholic Church. Hoyt wanted to bring the professional standards of secular news reporting to the Catholic press, maintaining that "if the mayor of a city owned its only newspaper, its citizens will not learn what they need and deserve to know about its affairs". It has won the "General Excellence" award from the Catholic Press Association in the category of national news publications 13 times between 2000 and 2014. Despite the name, the publication operates outside of the authority of the Catholic Church. Promoting a progressive position, the NCR presents itself "as one of the few, if not the only truly independent, journalistic outlet for Catholics and others who struggle with the complex moral and societal issues of the day." However, the publication has been accused of ideological bias, favoring voices of dissent within the Catholic Church both in its expression of opinion and in its choice of news to report and of tending to criticize statements by the Holy See and Catholic bishops.〔(Michael L. Coulter, Richard S. Myers, Joseph A. Varacalli (editors), ''Encyclopedia of Catholic Social Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy'' (Scarecrow Press 2012 ISBN 978-0-81088275-1), pp. 230-231 )〕 ==Mission== TV journalist Bill Moyers said, "For decades now the National Catholic Reporter has been courageously committed to independent journalism whose only aim is real news—the news we need to keep our freedom. In a time when a handful of megamedia conglomerates control more and more of what we read, see and hear, NCR remains faithful to journalism as a moral calling, obliged to get as close a possible to the verifiable truth." Some of the issues NCR examines on a regular basis are part of the social justice wing of the church, including poverty, peace issues, the roles of women, environmental stewardship and immigration. NCR tries to be accurate but fair and impartial. The organization reported $4.3 million in annual revenue in 2013. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「National Catholic Reporter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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