Christian Science Monitor Editor Quits Over Planned Cuts
Katherine Fanning resigned today as editor of the Christian Science Monitor, citing the diversion of funds to television programs and plans to “downsize the paper and to drastically cut its staff.”
Managing editor David Anable and assistant managing editor David Winder also resigned.
Fanning, 61, editor since 1983 of the Monday-through-Friday paper, said in a statement that a planned restructuring of the Christian Science Publishing Society “threatens the founding purpose of the newspaper.”
“It establishes personal control by the business manager over the Monitor’s content and threatens editorial independence,” she said.
The Monitor in September launched a daily television program, “World Monitor,” anchored by former network newsman John Hart, and recently began publishing a monthly news magazine of the same name.
Fanning received numerous rounds of applause when she told the newsroom staff of her resignation.
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