Joseph Anthony Kelly

This article has multiple issues. Please help or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources:  –  ·  ·  · scholar · JSTOR (October 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) This article may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject, potentially preventing the article from being verifiable and neutral. Please help by replacing them with more appropriate citations to reliable, independent, third-party sources. (November 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Joseph Anthony Kelly (born 1958) is an English journalist, editor^[1] and publisher. He is editor of Agora Journal and managing editor of The Edit Partnership Ltd.

Kelly was born in Perivale, Middlesex on 10 August 1958. He attended Presentation College, Reading, and later as a mature student read English at Ruskin College, Oxford and gained an MA in Religions and Theology at Manchester University.

Kelly trained as a photographer and worked in a number of south of England studios, before moving to London to work as a freelance photojournalist for the national press.

He moved to north Wales in 1987 to become editor of Country Quest, the magazine for Wales, before moving on to edit New Lines, the Welsh Arts Council literary review, and then worked as deputy editor on the Wrexham Leader, editor of the Deeside Midweek Leader and was music editor on the North Wales Evening Leader.

In 1994 he moved to The Catholic Universe national weekly newspaper as deputy editor, then edited Catholic Life magazine for twelve months, before returning as editor of The Catholic Universe^[2] – a position he held for 26 years until the company went into liquidation on 29 June 2021.^[3] Kelly was the second longest serving editor in the paper's 160-year history.

In 2010 Kelly commissioned the National Museum of Wales to create an exact replica of a historic Catholic book secretly produced in a cave in north Wales in 1586 as a gift from the people of Wales for Pope Benedict XVI. This was presented to the Pope at a Mass in Westminster Cathedral during his 2010 UK visit. ^[4]

In July 2021 Kelly set up The Edit Partnership Ltd,and is editor of The official Catholic Directory of England & Wales and Agora Journal architecture magazine.^[5]

He served for five years on CADW's Historic Buildings Conservation Committee. He is a member of the Royal Photographic Society, the Society of Editors, and is an affiliate member of RIBA.

References[]