Joop Koopman named editor in chief of Catholic Digest magazine

Published: 2004-02-05

NEW YORK (CNS) -- Joop Koopman, a veteran of Catholic journalism, has been named editor in chief and associate publisher of Catholic Digest, the largest paid-circulation Catholic publication in the United States. Koopman, 46, began his career in 1982 with National Catholic Register, a national Catholic newsweekly now based in North Haven, Conn. After stints as foreign editor and deputy editor, he served as the paper's editor in 1993-97, earning it the Catholic Press Association's general excellence award in 1994. He has been working for a number of years as a consultant to Paris-based Bayard Presse, which purchased Catholic Digest in 2001. Bayard's flagship publication is the daily French-language Catholic newspaper, La Croix, described as the only daily Catholic newspaper in the world not published by official church leaders.

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