The Christian Science Monitor

The Christian Science Monitor ( CSM ) is an English-language daily newspaper . Monitor World is a weekly issue outside the US . It is published by the Christian Science Publishing Society in Boston . As of 2009, the Christian Science Monitor had a circulation of 67,703 copies.

The monitor only accepts a few agency reports and mainly relies on freelancers. The typical style of the Christian Science Monitor is considered to be “nonhysterical”.

history

The newspaper was in 1908 by Mary Baker Eddy , the founder of Christian Science , founded after the New York World of Joseph Pulitzer were brought numerous articles critical of Christian Science. The mission of the monitor is to “harm no one, but rather to bless all of humanity”, according to its own statements. To date, the Monitor has received the Pulitzer Prize seven times , for the first time in 1950 for a series of critical reports on everyday life in the Soviet Union under Stalin , which was marked by repression and exploitation , written by the former Moscow correspondent Edmund Stevens , and most recently in 2002 for the caricatures by the author Clay Bennett . In 2004, the Christian Science Monitor was fined the British war critic George Galloway and had to apologize for reports based on forged documents that Saddam Hussein had transferred money to Galloway.

For some time now, The Christian Science Monitor has had a decreasing circulation and is in the red. In October 2008, the newspaper announced that it would be the first major daily newspaper in the USA to discontinue its daily print edition from April 2009 and only publish a weekly edition in magazine form on paper. The daily articles will only appear on the newspaper's website and in a daily e-mail .

Radio and television

From the mid-1980s, the CSM also developed radio and television activities. From 1984 to June 1997, Monitor Radio was broadcast on numerous public radio stations in the United States. From March 1987, the international counterpart was the World Service of the Christian Science Monitor via shortwave (WCSN Scotts Corners, Maine , 1987–1994; WSHB Cypress Creek, South Carolina , 1989–1997; KHBI Saipan, Northern Marianas , 1989–1997; every Monday until Friday; Saturdays and Sundays Herold of Christian Science , 1990–2004 also in German). From 1986 to 1992 television programs were produced; from May 1991 there was a separate monitor channel for one year . Financial difficulties led to the suspension of all these activities. 45.15 -68.56666666666732.681111111111 -81.1315.121111111111 145.69305555556

Readership and Relationship to Religion

A large part of today's readership of the newspaper, as well as most of the employees, do not belong to the Christian Science Church themselves. The former Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt often quoted the paper in his speeches. The newspaper has an editorial department that is journalistically independent from the church leadership; economically there is nevertheless a dependency. The newspaper does not report on the Christian Science Church itself, neither positively nor critically, in order to avoid conflicts of loyalty. However, according to one of the founder's wishes, at least one article appears every day that deals with the topic of religion in the broadest sense.

Web links

Website Monitor (Engl.)
Self-expression of the Monitor (Engl.)
Interview with editor-in-chief John Yemma , Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin , issue 19, May 8, 2009
Pulitzer Prizes for the CS Monitor (Engl.)

Individual evidence

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↑ Alex Beam : Appealing to a higher authority . June 9, 2005. Retrieved February 23, 2011.
^ Whitman Bassow: The Moscow Correspondents. Reporting Russia from the Revolution to Glasnost. New York 1988, p. 321.
^ Galloway matter settled . The Christian Science Monitor. March 22, 2004. Retrieved February 23, 2011.
^ David Cook: "Monitor shifts from print to Web-based strategy" , Christian Science Monitor, October 28, 2008
^ Christian Science Radio Service Shuts Down . The New York Times , June 28, 1997
↑ WSHB recording from August 17, 1989
↑ The End of an Era - WSHB Goes Silent . NASB Newsletter, March 2004
^ Susan Bridge: Monitoring the news: the brilliant launch and sudden collapse of The Monitor Channel . ME Sharpe, Armonk 1998, ISBN 0-7656-0315-2 ( limited preview in Google book search).

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[2] Alex Beam : Appealing to a higher authority . June 9, 2005. Retrieved February 23, 2011.

[3] Whitman Bassow: The Moscow Correspondents. Reporting Russia from the Revolution to Glasnost. New York 1988, p. 321.

[4] Galloway matter settled . The Christian Science Monitor. March 22, 2004. Retrieved February 23, 2011.

[5] David Cook: "Monitor shifts from print to Web-based strategy" , Christian Science Monitor, October 28, 2008

[6] Christian Science Radio Service Shuts Down . The New York Times , June 28, 1997

[7] WSHB recording from August 17, 1989

[8] The End of an Era - WSHB Goes Silent . NASB Newsletter, March 2004

[9] Susan Bridge: Monitoring the news: the brilliant launch and sudden collapse of The Monitor Channel . ME Sharpe, Armonk 1998, ISBN 0-7656-0315-2 ( limited preview in Google book search).