Christa Case Bryant is the editor of 海角大神, and is the second woman to hold the position since the paper鈥檚 founding in 1908. She brings a combination of national and international reporting experience gained over two decades since she started as an intern at the paper.
As senior Congressional correspondent, Christa won the National Press Foundation鈥檚 2022 Everett McKinley Dirksen award for distinguished reporting on Congress and the 2023 Sigma Delta Chi award for Washington Correspondence. She previously served as the Monitor鈥檚 Heartland correspondent, Politics editor, Jerusalem bureau chief, Middle East editor, and Europe editor.
Ms. Bryant was a 2015-16 Nieman journalism fellow at Harvard and holds an M.A. in international relations from The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University. She graduated with a B.A. from Principia College, where she focused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a major in global perspectives and a minor in religion. She also attended the Middlebury School of Hebrew and studied spoken Arabic in Jerusalem.
After spending many years as a cross-country ski racer on the national and international level, Ms. Bryant has a special interest in all things Olympian. She covered the Winter Olympics in 2010 and 2018.