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As editor, Sappenfield has helped to develop and produce the Monitor’s “values projects,” including ''The Respect Project'', ''Finding Resilience'', and ''Rebuilding Trust''.<ref name="Respect Project">{{cite news|title=Bridging the conflicts that divide us|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Topics/The-Respect-Project-Bridging-the-conflicts-that-divide-us |publisher=Christian Science Monitor}}</ref> |
As editor, Sappenfield has helped to develop and produce the Monitor’s “values projects,” including ''The Respect Project'', ''Finding Resilience'', and ''Rebuilding Trust''.<ref name="Respect Project">{{cite news|title=Bridging the conflicts that divide us|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Topics/The-Respect-Project-Bridging-the-conflicts-that-divide-us |publisher=Christian Science Monitor}}</ref> |
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==Stepping Down in 2025== |
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It was announced in October 2024 that Sappenfield will be stepping back from his role as Editor, having decided to extend his stay in Berlin, Germany, where he and his family have been living since August 2023. Christa Case Bryant will take the reins from Sappenfield in early 2025. While covering Congress for the Monitor, Bryant won the [[National Press Foundation]]’s Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress in 2022, and the 2023 [[Sigma Delta Chi Award]] for Washington Correspondence. Sappenfield will continue at the Monitor in a senior role.<ref name="Christa Case Bryant">{{cite news|title=A new editor for the Monitor|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/Daily/2024/20241025/A-new-editor-for-the-Monitor |publisher=Christian Science Monitor}}</ref> |
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Since its founding in 1908 by [[Mary Baker Eddy]], The [[Christian Science Monitor]] has won seven [[Pulitzer Prize|Pulitzer Prizes]].<ref name="CS Monitor">{{cite news|title=CS Monitor Pulitzers |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Christian-Science-Monitor |publisher=Britannica}}</ref> |
Since its founding in 1908 by [[Mary Baker Eddy]], The [[Christian Science Monitor]] has won seven [[Pulitzer Prize|Pulitzer Prizes]].<ref name="CS Monitor">{{cite news|title=CS Monitor Pulitzers |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Christian-Science-Monitor |publisher=Britannica}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 01:52, 30 October 2024
Mark Sappenfield is Editor-in-chief at The Christian Science Monitor, a position he has held since 2017.[1]
Education
Sappenfield received a degree in journalism from Washington and Lee University in 1996.[2]
The Monitor
After graduating from Washington and Lee in 1996, he began at the Monitor as a staff editor and writer. In 2009 he became the Monitor’s deputy national news editor until 2014, and from 2014 to 2017 he was the national news editor. He took over as Editor-in-chief in 2017.[3]
He has written on the issues of politics, sports and science from Washington, D.C., the San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, and has reported from seven Olympic Winter and Summer Games. He has also written about events at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which included the landing of the Mars Opportunity rover.[4][5]
As editor, Sappenfield has helped to develop and produce the Monitor’s “values projects,” including The Respect Project, Finding Resilience, and Rebuilding Trust.[6]
Stepping Down in 2025
It was announced in October 2024 that Sappenfield will be stepping back from his role as Editor, having decided to extend his stay in Berlin, Germany, where he and his family have been living since August 2023. Christa Case Bryant will take the reins from Sappenfield in early 2025. While covering Congress for the Monitor, Bryant won the National Press Foundation’s Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress in 2022, and the 2023 Sigma Delta Chi Award for Washington Correspondence. Sappenfield will continue at the Monitor in a senior role.[7]
Since its founding in 1908 by Mary Baker Eddy, The Christian Science Monitor has won seven Pulitzer Prizes.[8]
References
- ^ "Mark Sappenfield, Editor". Christian Science Monitor.
- ^ "With "straightforward and unsexy" email, The Christian Science Monitor has hit 10,000 paid digital subscribers in a year". Nieman Lab.
- ^ "Mark Sappenfield Talk, Editor of the Christian Science Monitor". Peace Haven Association.
- ^ "The Third Founding, with Mark Sappenfield". Common Ground Committee.
- ^ "Mark Sappenfield". B-future Festival.
- ^ "Bridging the conflicts that divide us". Christian Science Monitor.
- ^ "A new editor for the Monitor". Christian Science Monitor.
- ^ "CS Monitor Pulitzers". Britannica.