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{{Short description|News outlet owned by Christian Science church}}
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{{Infobox newspaper
| name         = ''The Christian Science Monitor''
| logo         = The Christian Science Monitor masthead.svg
| image        = Christian Science Monitor.jpg
| caption      = Front page of the April 26, 2009 edition
| type         = [[Weekly newspaper]]
| founded      = {{start date and age|1908}}
| owners       = [[Christian Science Publishing Society]]
| headquarters = 210 [[Massachusetts Avenue (metropolitan Boston)|Massachusetts Avenue]]<br />[[Boston]], Massachusetts, U.S. 02115
| editor       = [[Christa Case Bryant]]
| oclc         = 35351012
| ISSN         = 0882-7729
| website      = {{URL|csmonitor.com}}
}}

'''''The Christian Science Monitor''''' ('''''CSM'''''), commonly known as '''''The Monitor''''',  is a [[nonprofit]] news organization that publishes daily articles both in [[Electronic publishing|electronic format]] and a weekly print edition.<ref name="Barnett">{{cite web |last=Barnett |first=Jim |title=What advocacy nonprofits can learn from The Christian Science Monitor |url=http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/04/what-advocacy-nonprofits-can-learn-from-the-christian-science-monitor/ |website=Nieman Lab |publisher=Harvard College |date=April 27, 2010 |access-date=November 19, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171006004701/http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/04/what-advocacy-nonprofits-can-learn-from-the-christian-science-monitor/ |archive-date=October 6, 2017 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref name="Kasuya">{{cite news |last=Kasuya |first=Jacquelyn |title=Nonprofit Christian Science Monitor Seeks New Financial Model |url=https://www.philanthropy.com/article/Nonprofit-Christian-Science/193903 |work=[[The Chronicle of Philanthropy]] |date=April 30, 2010 |access-date=November 19, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201043824/https://www.philanthropy.com/article/Nonprofit-Christian-Science/193903 |archive-date=December 1, 2017 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all }}</ref> It was founded in 1908 as a daily [[newspaper]] by [[Mary Baker Eddy]], founder of the [[new religious movement]] [[Christian Science]], [[Church of Christ, Scientist]].<ref name="Koestler-Grack">{{cite book |last=Koestler-Grack |first=Rachel |title=Mary Baker Eddy |date=2013 |publisher=Chelsea House |location=New York |isbn=978-1-4381-4707-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pe5bAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT79 |access-date=November 19, 2017 |archive-date=March 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190301010131/https://books.google.com/books?id=Pe5bAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT79 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Since its founding, the newspaper has been based in [[Boston]]. Over its existence, seven ''Monitor'' journalists have been awarded the [[Pulitzer Prize]], including Edmund Stevens  (1950), [[John Hughes (editor)|John Hughes]] (1968), Howard James (1968), Robert Cahn (1969), [[Richard Strout]] (1978), [[David S. Rohde]] (1996), and [[Clay Bennett (cartoonist)|Clay Bennett]] (2002).<ref name="auto">[https://www.csmonitor.com/Specials/Monitor-Centennial/Pulitzer-Prizes "Pulitzer Prizes"] at ''The Christian Science Monitor'' official website</ref>

== History ==
===20th century===
[[File:Mary Baker Eddy.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|[[Mary Baker Eddy]], who founded ''The Monitor'' in 1908]]
[[File:2006 ChristianScienceMonitor building Boston 2594437787.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|Headquarters of ''The Christian Science Monitor'' on [[Massachusetts Avenue (metropolitan Boston)|Massachusetts Avenue]] in [[Boston]]]]
The ''Monitor'' was founded in 1908 in part as a response by [[Mary Baker Eddy]] to the journalism of her day, which relentlessly covered the sensations and scandals surrounding her new religion with varying accuracy{{original research inline|date=April 2024}}. In addition, [[Joseph Pulitzer]]'s ''[[New York World]]'' was consistently critical of Eddy, and this, along with a derogatory article in ''[[McClure's]]'', furthered Eddy's decision to found her own media outlet.<ref name="AboutCSM">{{cite web|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/About|title=About the Monitor|work=The Christian Science Monitor|access-date=February 5, 2007|archive-date=February 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200214134116/https://www.csmonitor.com/About|url-status=live}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=April 2024}} Eddy also required the inclusion of "[[Christian Science]]" in the paper's name, over initial opposition by some of her advisors who thought the religious reference might repel a secular audience.<ref name="AboutCSM" />{{failed verification|date=April 2024}}

Eddy also saw a vital need to counteract the fear often spread by media reporting:
<blockquote>
Looking over the newspapers of the day, one naturally reflects that it is dangerous to live, so loaded with disease seems the very air. These descriptions carry fears to many minds, to be depicted in some future time upon the body. A periodical of our own will counteract to some extent this public nuisance; for through our paper, at the price at which we shall issue it, we shall be able to reach many homes with healing, purifying thought.<ref>Mary Baker Eddy, ''Miscellaneous Writings'' 7:17–24.</ref>
</blockquote>

Eddy declared that ''The Monitor''{{'}}s mission should be "to spread undivided the Science that operates unspent" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, Mary Baker Eddy, p.&nbsp;353:16).<ref name="AboutCSM" />{{failed verification|date=April 2024}}

MonitoRadio was a radio service produced by the Church of Christ Scientist between 1984 and 1997. It featured several one-hour news broadcasts a day, as well as top of the hour news bulletins. The service was widely heard on [[public radio]] stations throughout the United States. ''The Monitor'' later launched an international broadcast over [[shortwave]] radio, called the World Service of the ''Christian Science Monitor''. Weekdays were news-led, but weekend schedules were exclusively dedicated to religious programming. The shortwave service ceased operations on June 28, 1997.<ref name="MtN">{{cite book |last=Bridge |first=Susan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=__h9qS3s8nIC&q=monitoring+the+news |title=Monitoring the News |publisher=M. E. Sharpe |year=1998 |isbn=0-7656-0315-2 |access-date=November 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407115223/https://books.google.com/books?id=__h9qS3s8nIC&q=monitoring+the+news |archive-date=April 7, 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1986, ''The Monitor'' started producing a current affairs television series ''The Christian Science Monitor Reports'', which was distributed via syndication to television stations across the United States. In 1988, ''The Christian Science Monitor Reports'' won a [[Peabody Award]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Peabody Awards "Islam in Turmoil" |url=http://www.peabody.uga.edu/winners/details.php?id=515 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100611122935/http://www.peabody.uga.edu/winners/details.php?id=515 |archive-date=June 11, 2010 |access-date=April 10, 2009 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> for a series of reports on Islamic fundamentalism. That same year, the program was cancelled, and ''The Monitor'' created a daily television program ''World Monitor'', anchored by former NBC correspondent [[John Hart (journalist)|John Hart]], which was initially shown on the [[Discovery Channel]]. In 1991, ''World Monitor'' moved to the [[Monitor Channel]], a 24-hour news and information channel<ref name="MtN" /> launched on May 1, 1991, with programming from its Boston TV station [[WBPX-TV|WQTV]].<ref name="bc">{{cite journal |date=December 31, 1990 |title=Monitoring the 'Monitor' |url=http://americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1990/BC-1990-12-30.pdf |journal=Broadcasting |volume=119 |issue=27 |page=64 |access-date=April 6, 2017}}</ref> The only religious programming on the channel was a five-minute Christian Science program early each morning.<ref>{{cite news |last=Faison |first=Seth Jr. |date=April 6, 1992 |title=New Deadline for Monitor Channel |page=D7 |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/06/business/the-media-business-new-deadline-for-monitor-channel.html |url-status=live |access-date=February 18, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170402222416/http://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/06/business/the-media-business-new-deadline-for-monitor-channel.html |archive-date=April 2, 2017 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> In 1992, after eleven months on the air, the service was shut down amid huge financial losses.<ref>{{cite news |last=Franklin |first=James L. |date=April 24, 1994 |title=Monitor Channel is missed |page=28 |work=[[The Boston Globe]] |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8276321.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025081210/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8276321.html |archive-date=October 25, 2012}}</ref> Programming from the Monitor Channel was also carried nationally via the [[WWOR EMI Service]], a nationally oriented feed of [[WWOR-TV]], a [[New Jersey]]–based television station launched in 1990 to comply with the [[syndication exclusivity]] laws put into place the year prior.

===21st century===
The print edition continued to struggle for readership, and, in 2004, faced a renewed mandate from the church to earn a profit. Subsequently, ''The Monitor'' began relying more on the Internet as part of its business model. ''The Monitor'' was one of the first newspapers to put its text online in 1996 and also one of the first to launch a [[Portable Document Format|PDF]] edition in 2001. It was also an early pioneer of [[RSS (file format)|RSS]] feeds.<ref>{{Cite conference |last=Gill |first=K. E |year=2005 |title=Blogging, RSS and the information landscape: A look at online news |url=http://faculty.washington.edu/kegill/pub/gill_www2005_rss.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020041234/http://faculty.washington.edu/kegill/pub/gill_www2005_rss.pdf |archive-date=October 20, 2012 |access-date=January 30, 2013 |book-title=WWW 2005 Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem |url-status=live |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

In 2005, [[Richard Bergenheim]], a [[Christian Science practitioner]], was named editor. Shortly before his death in 2008, Bergenheim was replaced by veteran ''[[Boston Globe]]'' editor and former ''Monitor'' reporter John Yemma.<ref name="yemma">{{cite web |last=Cook |first=David |date=June 9, 2008 |title=John Yemma named Monitor editor |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0609/p25s08-usgn.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090503181725/http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0609/p25s08-usgn.html |archive-date=May 3, 2009 |access-date=January 30, 2013 |work=The Christian Science Monitor |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

In 2006, [[Jill Carroll]], a freelance reporter on an assignment for ''The Monitor'', was kidnapped in [[Baghdad]]. Although Carroll was a freelancer, the paper worked tirelessly for her release, and hired her as a staff writer shortly after her abduction to ensure that she had financial benefits.<ref name="cnn">{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/04/02/carroll.hostage/|title=Carroll Reunites with family|work=[[CNN]] World|date=April 2, 2006|access-date=January 30, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130912215403/http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/04/02/carroll.hostage/|archive-date=September 12, 2013|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> She was released safely after 82 days. Beginning in August 2006, the ''Monitor'' published an account<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/specials/carroll/index.html |title=Hostage: The Jill Carroll Story |author=Jill Carroll |work=The Christian Science Monitor |date=August 14, 2006 |access-date=January 30, 2013 |archive-date=March 14, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090314055805/http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/carroll/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref> of Carroll's kidnapping and subsequent release, with first-person reporting from Carroll and others involved.

In October 2008, citing net losses of US$18.9 million per year versus US$12.5 million in annual revenue, ''The Monitor'' announced that it would cease printing daily and instead print weekly editions.<ref name="fine">{{cite web |last=Fine |first=Jon |date=October 28, 2008 |title=The Christian Science Monitor to Become a Weekly |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-10-28/the-christian-science-monitor-to-become-a-weeklybusinessweek-business-news-stock-market-and-financial-advice |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310234601/http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-10-28/the-christian-science-monitor-to-become-a-weeklybusinessweek-business-news-stock-market-and-financial-advice |archive-date=March 10, 2016 |access-date=January 31, 2013 |work=[[Bloomberg BusinessWeek]] |df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name="clifford">{{cite news |last=Clifford |first=Stephanie |date=October 28, 2008 |title=Christian Science Paper to End Daily Print Edition |page=B8 |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/business/media/29paper.html?bl&ex=1225425600&en=63df0ce22e52f090&ei=5087%0A |url-status=live |access-date=October 28, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090417082329/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/business/media/29paper.html?bl&ex=1225425600&en=63df0ce22e52f090&ei=5087%0A |archive-date=April 17, 2009 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> The last daily print edition was published on March 27, 2009.{{Sfn|Fuller|2011|pp=60–61}}

The weekly magazine follows on from ''The Monitor''{{'s}} London edition, also a weekly, which launched in 1960, and the weekly World Edition, which replaced the London edition in 1974.<ref>{{cite journal |date=November 25, 2008 |title=Monitor Timeline |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1125/p99s01-usgn.html |url-status=live |journal=The Christian Science Monitor |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220831153439/https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2008/1125/p99s01-usgn.html |archive-date=August 31, 2022 |access-date=April 10, 2009}}</ref> Mark Sappenfield became the editor in March 2017.<ref>{{cite news |last=Cook |first=David T. |date=December 16, 2013 |title=New editor named to lead The Christian Science Monitor |newspaper=The Christian Science Monitor |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/2017/0306/New-editor-at-The-Christian-Science-Monitor |url-status=live |access-date=August 2, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170803005017/https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/2017/0306/New-editor-at-The-Christian-Science-Monitor |archive-date=August 3, 2017 |df=mdy-all}}</ref>
Christa Case Bryant succeeded him in February 2025.<ref>“[https://www.nenpa.com/christa-case-bryant-has-assumed-the-role-of-editor-for-the-christian-science-monitor/ Christa Case Bryant has assumed the role of editor for The Christian Science Monitor].” ''The NENPA eBulletin''. New England Newspaper & Press Association. Woburn, Massachusetts. February 13, 2025. Retrieved August 20, 2025.</ref>

==Reporting==
[[File:Pulitzer2018-david-rohde-20180530-wp.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|[[David S. Rohde]], one of seven ''Christian Science Monitor'' editors and journalists to be awarded a [[Pulitzer Prize]] since the newspaper's founding<ref name="auto"/>]]
''The Christian Science Monitor'' is not primarily a religious-themed paper and does not evangelize,{{Sfn|Fuller|2011|p=2, 101}}{{Verify source|date=April 2024}}{{additional citation needed|date=April 2024}} though each issue of the paper does usually contain a single religious themed article in the ''Home Forum'' section, generally related to a topic from the day's news.{{Sfn|Fuller|2011|p=2, 83–85}} The paper reports on issues including natural disasters,{{Sfn|Fuller|2011|p=101–107}} disease and mental health issues,{{Sfn|Fuller|2011|p=113–116}} homelessness,{{Sfn|Fuller|2011|p=116–117}} terrorism,{{Sfn|Fuller|2011|p=121–122}} and death.{{Sfn|Fuller|2011|p=97}} The paper's editorials have advocated against government interference in an individual's right to choose their own form of healthcare.{{Sfn|Fuller|2011|p=113}} They also support the [[separation of church and state]], and the paper has opposed efforts to teach fundamentalist interpretations of the Bible in science classrooms.{{Sfn|Fuller|2011|p=80, 122–123}}

In 1997, the ''[[Washington Report on Middle East Affairs]]'', a publication critical of United States policy in the Middle East, praised ''The Monitor'' for its objective and informative coverage of Islam and the Middle East.<ref name="curtiss">{{cite news |title=As U.S. Media Ownership Shrinks, Who Covers Islam? |url=http://www.wrmea.org/wrmea-archives/190-washington-report-archives-1994-1999/december-1997/2775-media-watch-as-us-media-ownership-shrinks-who-covers-islam-.html |author=Richard Curtiss |work=Washington Report on Middle East Affairs |date=December 1997 |access-date=January 30, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130427111113/http://www.wrmea.org/wrmea-archives/190-washington-report-archives-1994-1999/december-1997/2775-media-watch-as-us-media-ownership-shrinks-who-covers-islam-.html |archive-date=April 27, 2013 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

During the 27 years while [[Nelson Mandela]] was in prison in [[South Africa]] after having been convicted of sabotage, among other charges, ''The Christian Science Monitor'' was one of the newspapers he was allowed to read.<ref name="mandelaaljazeera">{{cite web |last1=Malek |first1=Alia |title=If you were there, you remember Mandela's 1990 tour of the US |url=http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/12/if-you-were-thereyouremembermandelas1990touroftheus.html |publisher=Al Jazeera |access-date=April 13, 2020 |archive-date=August 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809034833/http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/12/if-you-were-thereyouremembermandelas1990touroftheus.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Five months after his release, Mandela visited [[Boston]] and stopped by ''The Monitor'' offices, telling the staff "The ''Monitor'' continues to give me hope and confidence for the world's future"<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Yemma |first1=John |title=Nelson Mandela at the Monitor: A memorable visitor on a quiet Sunday |journal=Christian Science Monitor |date=December 6, 2013 |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/From-the-Editor/2013/1206/Nelson-Mandela-at-the-Monitor-A-memorable-visitor-on-a-quiet-Sunday |access-date=April 13, 2020 |archive-date=February 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200212131044/https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/From-the-Editor/2013/1206/Nelson-Mandela-at-the-Monitor-A-memorable-visitor-on-a-quiet-Sunday |url-status=live}}</ref> and thanking them for their "unwavering coverage of apartheid".<ref name="mandelaaljazeera" /> Mandela called ''The Monitor'' "one of the more important voices covering events in South Africa".<ref>{{cite web |title=From the Collections: Mandela visits the Monitor |date=March 2, 2020 |url=https://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/research/from-the-collections-mandela-visits-the-monitor/ |publisher=Mary Baker Eddy Library |access-date=April 13, 2020 |archive-date=August 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809054217/https://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/research/from-the-collections-mandela-visits-the-monitor/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

During the era of [[McCarthyism]], a term first coined by ''The Monitor'',<ref>{{OED|McCarthyism, n.}}; citing ''Christian Science Monitor'', March 28, 1950, p. 20.</ref> the paper was one of the earliest critics of U.S. Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]].<ref>Strout, Lawrence N. (1999). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=jelmqLDGbFUC Covering McCarthyism: how the 'Christian Science Monitor' handled Joseph R. McCarthy, 1950-1954]''. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. "Introduction".</ref>

== Circulation ==
The paper's circulation has ranged widely, from a peak of over 223,000 in 1970 to just under 56,000 shortly before the suspension of the daily print edition in 2009.<ref name="Fine">{{cite web |url=http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2008-10-28/the-christian-science-monitor-to-become-a-weeklybusinessweek-business-news-stock-market-and-financial-advice |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130910234126/http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2008-10-28/the-christian-science-monitor-to-become-a-weeklybusinessweek-business-news-stock-market-and-financial-advice |archive-date=September 10, 2013 |work=[[Bloomberg Businessweek]] |title=The Christian Science Monitor to Become a Weekly |first=Jon |last=Fine |date=October 28, 2008}}</ref> Partially in response to declining circulation and the struggle to earn a profit, the church's directors and the manager of the [[Christian Science Publishing Society]] were purportedly forced to plan cutbacks and closures (later denied), which led in 1989 to the mass protest resignations by its chief editor [[Kay Fanning]] (an [[American Society of Newspaper Editors|ASNE]] president and former editor of the ''[[Anchorage Daily News]]''), managing editor David Anable, associate editor David Winder, and several other newsroom staff. Those developments also presaged administrative moves to scale back the print newspaper in favor of expansions into radio, a magazine, shortwave broadcasting, and television. Expenses, however, rapidly outpaced revenues, contradicting predictions by church directors.<ref name="MtN"/>{{Rp|page=150}} On the brink of bankruptcy, the board was forced to close the broadcast programs in 1992.<ref name="MtN"/>{{Rp|pages=163–166}}

By late 2011, ''The Monitor'' was receiving an average of about 22 million hits per month on its website, slightly below the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''.<ref name="Collins">{{cite book |last1=Collins |first1=Keith S. |title=The Christian Science Monitor: Its History, Mission, and People |date=2012 |publisher=Nebbadoon Press |isbn=978-1-891331-27-5}}</ref> In 2017, the ''Monitor'' put up a paywall on its content, and in 2018, there were approximately 10,000 subscriptions to the ''Monitor Daily'' email service.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/05/the-christian-science-monitors-new-paid-daily-product-is-aiming-for-10000-subscribers-in-a-year/ |title=The Christian Science Monitor's new paid, daily product is aiming for 10,000 subscribers in a year |website=Nieman Lab |access-date=2019-08-23 |archive-date=August 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190822074301/https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/05/the-christian-science-monitors-new-paid-daily-product-is-aiming-for-10000-subscribers-in-a-year/ |url-status=live}}</ref> {{As of|September 2023}}, the number of hits had fallen to 1&nbsp;million per month.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.similarweb.com/website/csmonitor.com/#overview |website=similarweb |title=csmonitor.com |access-date=September 12, 2023}}</ref>

==Notable editors and staff (past and present)==
{{main category|The Christian Science Monitor people|''The Christian Science Monitor'' people}}
{{div col}}
* [[Willis J. Abbot]], editor and author
* [[Clay Bennett (cartoonist)|Clay Bennett]], [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning cartoonist
* [[Richard Bergenheim]], editor
* [[Erwin Canham]], editor and author
* [[Jill Carroll]], reporter, kidnapped for 82 days in 2006
* [[William Henry Chamberlin]], reporter, author
* [[Grover Clark]], [[China]] correspondent
* [[John K. Cooley]], longtime contributing editor
* [[Roscoe Drummond]], longtime reporter and editor
* [[Kay Fanning]], editor, first woman to edit an American national newspaper
* [[John Gould (columnist)|John Gould]], longtime columnist and author
* [[Roland R. Harrison]], editor
* [[Joseph C. Harsch]], [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]], longtime reporter
* Sir [[Harold Hobson]], longtime drama critic
* [[Mary J. Hornaday]], vice president of the [[Overseas Press Club]]
* [[John Hughes (editor)|John Hughes]], [[Pulitzer Prize]] winner, editor, author
* [[Reuben H. Markham]], longtime reporter, author
* [[Luix Overbea]], journalist, founding member of [[National Association of Black Journalists]]
* [[Scott Peterson (writer)|Scott Peterson]], longtime reporter and author
* [[Cora Rigby]], first woman at a major paper to head a [[Washington, D.C.]] news bureau and [[Women's National Press Club]] co-founder
* [[David S. Rohde]], Pulitzer Prize winner
* [[Mark Sappenfield]], editor
* [[Richard Strout]], Pulitzer Prize winner
* [[Godfrey Sperling]], columnist
* [[Nate White]], [[List of winners of the Gerald Loeb Newspaper Award|Gerald Loeb Newspaper Award]] winner
* [[Colin Woodard]], correspondent
* [[Paul Wohl]], political commentator
{{end div col}}

== Awards ==
Staff of ''The Monitor'' have been recipients of seven [[Pulitzer Prize]]s for their work on ''The Monitor'':

* [[1950 Pulitzer Prize|1950]], [[Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting]]: Edmund Stevens, for his series of 43 articles written over a three-year residence in [[Moscow]] entitled, "This Is Russia Uncensored".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1950|title=The Pulitzer Prizes; 1950 winners|work=Pulitzer|access-date=April 19, 2010|archive-date=August 29, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120829031209/http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1950|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[1967 Pulitzer Prize|1967]], [[Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting]]: [[R. John Hughes]], For his thorough reporting of [[Indonesia]]'s attempted [[Transition to the New Order]] in 1965 and the purge that followed in 1965–66.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1967|title=The Pulitzer Prizes; 1967 winners|work=Pulitzer|access-date=April 19, 2010|archive-date=September 1, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120901192723/http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1967|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[1968 Pulitzer Prize|1968]], [[Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting]]: Howard James, for his series of articles, ''Crisis in the Courts''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1968|title=The Pulitzer Prizes; 1968 winners|work=Pulitzer|date=May 26, 1967|access-date=April 19, 2010|archive-date=September 1, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120901192801/http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1968|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[1969 Pulitzer Prize|1969]], [[Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting]]: [[Robert Cahn]], for his inquiry into the future of the United States' [[United States National Park|national parks]] and the methods that may help to preserve them.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1969|title=The Pulitzer Prizes; 1969 winners|work=Pulitzer|date=October 14, 1968|access-date=April 19, 2010|archive-date=September 1, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120901192828/http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1969|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[1978 Pulitzer Prize|1978]], [[Pulitzer Prize Special Citations and Awards]], Journalism: [[Richard Strout]], for distinguished commentary from Washington, D.C. over many years as staff correspondent for ''The Christian Science Monitor'' and as a contributor to ''[[The New Republic]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1978|title=The Pulitzer Prizes; 1978 winners|work=Pulitzer|date=October 20, 1977|access-date=April 19, 2010|archive-date=September 1, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120901193427/http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1978|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[1996 Pulitzer Prize|1996]], [[Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting]]: [[David Rohde]], for his persistent on-site reporting of [[Srebrenica massacre|the slaughter of thousands of Bosnian Muslims]] in the [[Srebrenica genocide]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1996|title=The Pulitzer Prizes; 1996 winners|work=Pulitzer|access-date=April 19, 2010|archive-date=September 5, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120905015826/http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1996|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[2002 Pulitzer Prize|2002]], [[Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning]]: [[Clay Bennett (cartoonist)|Clay Bennett]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2002-Editorial-Cartooning|title=The Pulitzer Prizes; Editorial cartooning – Citation|work=Pulitzer.org|access-date=April 19, 2010|archive-date=July 28, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120728074637/http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2002-Editorial-Cartooning|url-status=live}}</ref>

==In popular culture==
In [[Aldous Huxley]]'s 1932 [[Utopian and dystopian fiction|dystopian novel]] ''[[Brave New World]]'', [[Christianity]] is replaced by a pseudo-religion focused on a deified [[Henry Ford]], and ''The Monitor'', while still being published, changes its name to "The ''Fordian'' Science Monitor".

== References ==
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== Further reading ==
* [[Erwin Canham|Canham, Erwin D.]] (1958). [https://archive.org/details/commitmenttofree007640mbp ''Commitment to Freedom: The Story of the Christian Science Monitor'']. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company.
* [[John C. Merrill|Merrill, John C.]] and Fisher, Harold A. (1980). ''[https://archive.org/details/worldsgreatdaili0000merr/page/96/mode/2up The world's great dailies: profiles of fifty newspapers]''. Hastings House. pp.&nbsp;96–103.
* [[Christian Science Publishing Society]] (1988). ''The First 80 Years: The Christian Science Monitor''. Boston, MA: CSPS.
* {{wikicite|ref={{SfnRef|Bridge|1998}}|reference=Bridge, Susan (1998). ''[https://archive.org/details/monitoringnewsbr0000brid Monitoring the News: The Brilliant Launch and Sudden Collapse of the Monitor Channel]''. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe.}}
* Strout, Lawrence N. (1999). ''Covering McCarthyism: how the 'Christian Science Monitor' handled Joseph R. McCarthy, 1950-1954''. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
* {{wikicite|ref={{SfnRef|Fuller|2011}}|reference=Fuller, Linda K. (2011). ''[https://archive.org/details/christianscience0000full The Christian Science Monitor: An Evolving Experiment in Journalism]''. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.}}
* Collins, Keith S. (2012). ''The Christian Science Monitor: Its History, Mission, and People''. Nebbadoon Press.
* {{cite journal |last1=Squires |first1=L. Ashley |title=All the News Worth Reading: The "Christian Science Monitor" and the Professionalization of Journalism |journal=Book History |date=2015 |volume=18 |pages=235–272 |jstor=43956374 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43956374 |issn=1098-7371}}

==External links==
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