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Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist, founded The Christian Science Monitor in 1908. She started it partly in response to the New York World's consistent criticism of her, and required the words "Christian Science" to appear in the paper's name despite opposition from some advisors.
Seven journalists at The Christian Science Monitor have won Pulitzer Prizes. Recipients include Edmund Stevens (1950), R. John Hughes (1967), Howard James (1968), Robert Cahn (1969), Richard Strout (1978), David Rohde (1996), and Clay Bennett (2002).
The Christian Science Monitor was one of the newspapers Nelson Mandela was permitted to read during his 27 years in a South African prison. Five months after his release, Mandela visited the Monitor's Boston offices and told staff the paper "continues to give me hope and confidence for the world's future," calling it "one of the more important voices covering events in South Africa."
The last daily print edition of The Christian Science Monitor was published on the 27th of March, 2009. The decision followed the paper's October 2008 announcement that it was losing US$18.9 million per year against annual revenue of only US$12.5 million.
Jill Carroll, a freelance reporter on assignment for the Monitor, was kidnapped in Baghdad in 2006 and held for 82 days before being released safely. The paper hired her as a staff writer shortly after her abduction to ensure she had financial benefits, then published her first-person account of the ordeal beginning in August 2006.
In Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World, the paper survives into a dystopian future but is renamed The Fordian Science Monitor to fit a religion centered on a deified Henry Ford. In Sylvia Plath's 1963 novel The Bell Jar, narrator Esther Greenwood says the Monitor is the only thing delivered to her mother's house but that she cannot read it because it treated suicides, sex crimes, and airplane crashes as if they did not happen.