Mark Sappenfield
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]
Since its founding in 1908 by Mary Baker Eddy, The Christian Science Monitor has won seven Pulitzer Prizes.[7]
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