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About The Christian Science Monitor (2 sources)

1.   With 22 bureaus around the globe, The Christian Science Monitor is one of the world's most influential newspapers. Over more than nine decades, the Monitor has earned a reputation for journalistic excellence, independence, and social responsibility. Its unbiased, fair, and constructive reporting has won six Pulitzer Prizes and scores of other awards.

The electronic edition of the Monitor, csmonitor.com, came online in 1996, and was immediately recognized for the paper's highly regarded reporting. With an average of more than 600,000 unique visitors a month, csmonitor.com  has distinguished itself as one of the most popular and most important news sites on the Web.

ProQuest, formerly Bell & Howell, will digitize the CSM's one million page archives and distribute the resulting database to educational institutions and libraries around the world. "The Christian Science Monitor has a very special and distinguished history for quality in journalism," said Joe Reynolds, president and CEO of Bell & Howell Information and Learning. "It is one of the most respected and important resources for researchers." For information on the digitizing project, see ProQuest

2.   The Christian Science Monitor is an international newspaper published daily, Monday through Friday. Started in 1908 the paper does not use wire services and instead relies largely on its own reporters in bureaus in eleven countries around the world. Despite its name, the Monitor was not established to be a religious-themed paper, nor does it directly promote the doctrine of its patron church.

The Monitor is particularly well known for its in-depth coverage of the Middle East, publishing material from veteran Middle East specialists like John K. Cooley.

In comparison to other major newspapers and journalistic magazines, the Monitor tends to take a steady and slightly upbeat approach to national and world news. Some of its readers prefer the Monitor because it avoids sensationalism, particularly with respect to tragedies, and for its objectivity and integrity.

The Monitor (or "CSM" as it is known in the intelligence community) is widely read by CIA and other intelligence agency analysts because of the newspaper's attention to accuracy and global perspective. Project Censored noted that the Monitor often publishes factual articles discussing topics under-represented or absent from the mainstream mass media.

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