The Christian Science Monitor

The Christian Science Monitor (CSM ) is an English-language daily newspaper. Outside the U.S., the weekly output monitor World is published. It is published by the Christian Science Publishing Society in Boston. The edition of the Christian Science Monitor is according to the state of 2009 67.703 copies.

The monitor takes just a few agency reports and relies mainly on freelancers. The typical style of the Christian Science Monitor considered as unexcited ( " nonhysterical ").

History

The newspaper was founded in 1908 by Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, having been brought in numerous New York World of Joseph Pulitzer articles critical of Christian Science. The monitor of the mission is " to harm anyone, but to bless all mankind " by its own account. The monitor received seven Pulitzer Prize today. The First 1950 for Russia report by Edmund Stevens and the Last 2002 for the cartoons by the author Clay Bennett. 2004, the Christian Science Monitor was sentenced to pay a fine to the British war critic George Galloway and had to apologize because they had reported using falsified documents that Saddam Hussein had referred to Galloway money.

For some time, The Christian Science Monitor has a smaller print and the red. In October 2008, the newspaper announced to be set as the first major daily newspaper in the U.S. its daily print edition in April 2009 and surrendered only a weekly edition in magazine form on paper. Daily articles will only appear on the website of the newspaper and in a daily e- mail edition.

Readership and relationship to religion

A majority of today's readership of the newspaper, as well as most employees are, not even on the Christian Science Church. Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt the paper quoted often in his speeches. The newspaper has a journalistically independent of the Church editorial line; economically there is still a dependency. About the Christian Science Church itself is not reported in the newspaper, neither positive nor critical in order to avoid conflicts of loyalty. However, it seems according to the wish of the founder every day at least one article in the broadest sense deals with the topic of religion.