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Mary Baker Eddy established The Christian Science Monitor in 1908 as a daily newspaper based in Boston. She created the outlet to counter sensationalist media coverage of her new religious movement, Christian Science.
The last daily print edition was published on the 27th of March 2009 after the paper announced it would cease printing daily and instead print weekly editions. This decision followed net losses of US$18.9 million per year versus US$12.5 million in annual revenue cited in October 2008.
Seven Monitor journalists have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize including Edmund Stevens in 1950 John Hughes in 1968 Howard James in 1968 Robert Cahn in 1969 Richard Strout in 1978 David S. Rohde in 1996 and Clay Bennett in 2002. These awards cover categories such as International Reporting National Reporting Special Citations and Awards Journalism and Editorial Cartooning.
The shortwave service called World Service of the Christian Science Monitor ceased operations on the 28th of June 1997. MonitoRadio itself was a radio service produced by the Church of Christ Scientist between 1984 and 1997 that featured several one-hour news broadcasts a day.
Jill Carroll a freelance reporter on an assignment for The Monitor was kidnapped in Baghdad in 2006 and released safely after 82 days. Although Carroll was a freelancer the paper worked tirelessly for her release and hired her as a staff writer shortly after her abduction to ensure that she had financial benefits.