The Christian Science Monitor history

The prizes, originally endowed with a gift of $500,000 from the newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer, are highly esteemed and have been awarded each May since 1917.

In 1965 the Monitor revised its format and began printing photographs on the front page, although the paper remained spare and quite selective in its use of illustrations.

In 1975 the paper changed to a tabloid format.

In 1986, the Monitor started producing a current affairs television series, The Christian Science Monitor Reports, which was distributed via syndication to television stations across the United States.

In 1988, the Christian Science Monitor Reports won a Peabody Award for a series of reports on Islamic fundamentalism.

The channel launched on May 1, 1991, with programming from its Boston TV station, WQTV. The only religious programming on the channel was a five-minute Christian Science program early each morning.

The newspaper won its sixth Pulitzer Prize in 1996, in the category of international reporting for journalist David Rohde’s on-site reporting of the Srebrenica massacre, and received its seventh Pulitzer in 2002 for editorial cartooning. Its website, launched in 1996, has won many awards.

The print edition continued to struggle for readership, and, in 2004, faced a renewed mandate from the church to earn a profit.

Shortly before his death in 2008, Bergenheim was replaced by a veteran Boston Globe editor and former Monitor reporter John Yemma.