Last Daily Christian Science Monitor Newspaper Published

 

BOSTON, MA (March 27, 2009) – The 100-year-old Christian Science Monitor published its last daily issue today and is set to launch as a Web site that also produces a weekly tabloid-style magazine.

The new weekly 44-page Christian Science Monitor debuts on April 12, and reporters and photographers who once produced content for the daily are now expected to produce stories, video, and audio reports for the CSM's Web site.

The CSM's final daily front page (at right) says, "Farewell, Daily Print," telling readers the CSM will be available soon in three formats: Web, print, and eMail newsletters for subscribers, and that the subscription rate goes from $210 annually to $89.

Founded in 1908 by Mary Baker Eddy and the First Church of Christ, Scientist, the CSM has won seven Pulitzer Prizes in its long tenure, and last year made $12.5 million in revenue despite the country's financial crisis and the ongoing decline in print advertising. The paper has also been receiving about $20 million a year from an endowment fund as well as from the church.

Editor John Yemma said that the change from daily print to online and weekly print is expected to save the newspaper as much as $10 million per year.

CSM photography editor Joanne Ciccarello wrote about the changes coming at the newspaper in the January 2009 issue of News Photographer magazine. The Monitor’s photography staff in Boston includes director Alfredo Sosa, photographer Melanie Stetson-Freeman, picture editor Ciccarello, photographer/editor Mary Knox Merrill. and photographer Andy Nelson.

 

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