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Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we鈥檝e always been transparent about that.
The church publishes the Monitor because it sees good journalism as vital to progress in the world. Since 1908, we鈥檝e aimed 鈥渢o injure no man, but to bless all mankind,鈥� as our founder, Mary Baker Eddy, put it.
Here, you鈥檒l find award-winning journalism not driven by commercial influences 鈥� a news organization that takes seriously its mission to uplift the world by seeking solutions and finding reasons for credible hope.
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The Monitor launches a new way to look at news
Mark Sappenfield
Talk to anyone in journalism. 鈥淣ews avoidance鈥� is a thing. People simply can鈥檛 cope with a daily dose of anger, failure, fear, and frustration. The Monitor was created to antidote this narrow view of news. Starting today, we鈥檙e going to make that even plainer.聽
Some of you will remember our Respect Project or Finding Resilience. By focusing on the values behind the news, we gave you a deeper view of the news and showed how it can highlight solutions that unite rather than divide. We鈥檙e going to do much more of this going forward. We鈥檙e going to clearly identify the values driving the news 鈥� whether it鈥檚 respect, compassion, responsibility, freedom, or so on. You can see how we鈥檙e starting this by clicking here.
This approach tells you why the story really matters 鈥� it gets to the heart of what people and societies are really wrestling with. But it also better explains why the story matters to you 鈥� showing how news from Mozambique to Minnesota has a universal relevance.
At first, these changes might not be apparent in places that you, as a subscriber, will recognize. In September, we鈥檒l be focusing mostly on changes to the layout of the stories on our website. But we鈥檒l make these changes more apparent in the Daily in the coming months.
The question we ask ourselves every day is: What more can we do to support the mission of our founder, Mary Baker Eddy, to do constructive, healing journalism that blesses all? We see this as something no one else in journalism is doing 鈥� and key to re-imagining the good that journalism can do in difficult times.
