Christian Science Monitor's Daily Becomes an Online Publication Next April. By David Cook, CSMonitor, October 29, 2008. "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, starting weekly print and daily e-mail editions, and discontinuing the current daily print format…This new, multiplatform strategy for the Monitor will 'secure and enlarge the Monitor's role in its second century,' said Mary Trammell, editor in chief of The Christian Science Publishing Society and a member of the Christian Science Board of Directors. Mrs. Trammell said that 'journalism that seeks to bless humanity, not injure, and that shines light on the world's challenges in an effort to seek solutions, is at the center of Mary Baker Eddy's vision for the Monitor.'…The Monitor has required a subsidy from the Christian Science church for most of its history. In the current budget year ending April 30, the Monitor in all forms is forecast to lose $18.9 million. The church will provide a subsidy of $12.1 million from its general fund, with earnings from the Monitor Endowment Fund and donor contributions to the Monitor's operating fund covering the balance. The changes in strategy are projected gradually to decrease the Monitor's net operating loss to $10.5 million in 2013…This is a period of extreme financial difficulty for all news organizations… The cost, delay, and waste generated by daily print are huge hindrances, said Monitor editor John Yemma. The Monitor can lead the way in providing news primarily online." [Editor's Note: CCC values the Monitor. We often provide links to their stories, and we wish them well in their transition.]
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