Sister Rita Larivee named first woman publisher of NCR

Published: 2005-03-24

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (CNS) -- Sister Rita C. Larivee of the Sisters of St. Anne has been appointed publisher and chief executive officer of the National Catholic Reporter Publishing Company. She becomes the first woman and the first religious to hold the top management job in the company that publishes the National Catholic Reporter, an independent Catholic weekly with headquarters in Kansas City, and several newsletters. Sister Larivee has been the organization's associate publisher since 1997 and has been interim publisher since January when Thomas C. Fox resigned. The announcement was made in an article posted on the newspaper's Web site March 18. She was appointed by the company's board of directors.

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