Mark Sappenfield
Mark Sappenfield is the editor-in-chief of The Christian Science Monitor, a position he has held since 2017.[1]
Education
[edit]Sappenfield received a degree in journalism from Washington and Lee University in 1996.[2]
The Monitor
[edit]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 helped to develop and produce the Monitor's “values projects,” including The Respect Project, Finding Resilience, and Rebuilding Trust.[6]
Stepping Back in 2025
[edit]The Monitor announced in October 2024 that Sappenfield will be stepping back from his role as editor. Christa Case Bryant will take the reins in early 2025 and will become only the second woman to ever hold the title at the paper. Covering Congress for the Monitor over the span of 20 years, 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
[edit]- ^ "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.