Religion News Service
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Religion News Service is a news agency about religion, ethics, spirituality and moral issues. Based in Washington, D.C., RNS has a network of correspondents around the world, providing news and information on all faiths and religious movements to the nation's leading newspapers, news magazines, broadcast organizations and religious publications. It serves more than 100 daily newspaper clients and also provides content to Web sites, TV and radio stations.

RNS is owned by Religion News LLC, a non-profit, limited liability corporation based at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. It is a secular news agency that does not endorse or promote any particular religion, creed beliefs, or non-beliefs. The RNS Advisory Board includes notable experts such as Gustav Niebuhr (Syracuse University), Ari L. Goldman (Columbia University), Charles C. Haynes (First Amendment Center), and Thomas Asher of the Social Science Research Council.

Religion News Service was founded in 1934 by National Conference of Christians and Jews. The United Methodist Reporter bought RNS in 1983, and in 1994, Newhouse News Service, a major publisher of daily newspapers and magazines, purchased it and changed its name to Religion News Service. In 2011, RNS was sold to an affiliated nonprofit of theReligionNewswriters Association.[2]

The current Editor-in-Chief is Kevin Eckstrom, who joined RNS in 2000 and became editor in 2006.[3] He replaced David E. Anderson who had been covering religion news for more than 30 years and is now Senior Editor of RNS. In 2007, Eckstrom was elected president of the Religion Newswriters Association.[4]

RNS is currently syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate.

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