KNA - Catholic News Agency

Introducing KNA

Since its foundation in 1952, the KNA catholic news agency has been an important member of the German-speaking media community. Today, we are the largest and most productive catholic news agency in Europe. We provide up-to-date and competent reports in all journalistic styles on catholic and secular themes both at home and abroad. Each year we distribute over 20,000 texts. Our customer base has grown to more than 60% of the daily press, the whole of the diocesan and catholic press, numerous magazines, radio and television providers. These customers can receive our up-to-date texts as hard copy, via modern media such as satellite, by e-mail or in PDF format.

KNA and its topics

Our aim is objective, factual, journalistically-independent reporting from a Christian perspective. At the interface between the church and the world, we report what is happening in the church, the thoughts of the church and the achievements of the church. We do this, on the one hand, by providing comprehensive coverage of catholic and church events. On the other hand, we provide information relating to the broad field of domestic and foreign social politics. We cover topics such as education, human rights, minorities and development aid as well as social and family politics, biomedical sciences and genetic engineering.

KNA in facts and figures

Our headquarters are in Bonn. This is also the home of our central editorial department. We operate four correspondent offices and a capital office in Berlin, as well as a state editorial office in Bavaria and three further regional sub-offices. The whole of the German-speaking area is covered by our partnership with kathpress (Austria) and KIPA (Switzerland). We are also represented in Rome, Brussels and Jerusalem. Both our information and customer networks are continually expanding. Our 80 salaried employees and some 350 freelancers around the globe enable us to provide a 24-hour professional reporting service. We generate more than 20,000 texts and 200 radio reports every year.