The Christian Science Monitor

www.csmonitor.com

Basic History
The Christian Science Monitor is an international daily newspaper, founded in 1908 by Mary Baker Eddy and published by the First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, MA, USA. Every article in the Monitor is international and US news and features, except for one religious article that has appeared each day in the home Forum Section since 1908, at Eddy's request. The publication received it's name because Eddy felt that the worlds "Christian Science" should be included "[to identify the paper] with the promise that no human situation was beyond healing or rectification if approached with sufficient understanding of [humankind's] God-given potentialities..."

Basic Beliefs
The Monitor's goals, as set by Mary Baker Eddy's experience with journalism, are to "injure no [human], but to bless all [humankind]." A local Boston journalist, John L. Wright's contributing to the paper's beliefs was a feeding for a growing need for a daily newspaper that "will place principle before dividends, and that will be fair, frank and honest with the people on all subjects and under whatever pressure," not controlled by "commercial and political monopolists." The idea is that unblemished truth is freeing (as fundamental human right), with it, citizens can make informed decisions and take intelligent action for themselves and for society.

Leadership
Editor - Paul Van Slambrouch
Managing Editor - Marshall Ingwerson
Senior Editor and Washington Bureau Chief - David Cook
Chief Editorial Writer - Clayton Jones

Basic Facts
The Monitor does not rely on wire services, rather on writers based in 11 countries, including Russian, China, France, the United Kingdom, Kenya, Mexico, the Middle East, and India as well as throughout the United States.

As of 1996, the Monitor has won 6 Pulitzer prize for excellence in journalism

Location
The Christian Science Monitor
1 Norway Street
Boston, MA 02115
Phone (617) 450-7034