CSM Embraces Web-based Readers Wholeheartedly

Monitor shifts from print to Web-based strategy

The Christian Science Monitor plans major changes in April 2009 that are expected to make it the first newspaper with a national audience to shift from a daily print format to an online publication that is updated continuously each day.

The changes at the Monitor will include enhancing the content on CSMonitor.com, starting weekly print and daily e-mail editions, and discontinuing the current daily print format.

The Christian Science Monitor has long made their headlines available through Feedburner at and thats how I usually find my way to their website.  With their focus shifting to a once weekly print version with daily website updates I think we will see even more of the great journalism the world has come to expect from the CSM.

Mary Trammel, editor in chief, reminds is that the vision for the CSM is “journalism that seeks to bless humanity, not injure, and that shines light on the world’s challenges in an effort to seek solutions”.  By adopting and embracing an expanded web presence, readers of the CSM can hope to see more stories on a wider range of topics since the underlying limitations of a print publication will be eliminated for most of the week.