Robert Hoyt (Journalist) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert G. Hoyt (born 1922 in Clinton, Iowa, died 2003) was an American journalist, and the founder and first editor of the National Catholic Reporter, an independent newspaper focusing on the Catholic Church. In 1964, he founded the National Catholic Reporter, because he wanted to bring the professional standards of secular news reporting to the Catholic press. It's circulation went to 100,000 in just a few years, leading other Catholic newspapers to adopt its probing standards of journalism as well. However, Hoyt left the newspaper in 1970.