Charles M. Sennott

Charles Sennott is the founder, Chief Executive Officer and Editor of The GroundTruth Project. He is an award-winning correspondent, best-selling author and editor with 30 years of experience in international, national and local journalism. A leading social entrepreneur in new media, Sennott started GroundTruth in 2014 and in 2017 launched the non-profit organization's new, local reporting initiative, Report for America.

Reporting on the front lines of wars and insurgencies in at least 20 countries, including the post 9-11 conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq and the 2011 Arab Spring, Sennott began his career in local news covering cops, courts and municipal government. Sennott’s deep experience in reporting led him to dedicate himself to supporting and training the next generation of journalists to tell the most important stories of our time. Sennott is also the co-founder of GlobalPost, an acclaimed international news website.

Previously, Sennott worked for many years as a reporter at the New York Daily News and then the Boston Globe, where he became Bureau Chief for the Middle East and Europe, and a leader of the paper's international coverage from 1997 to 2005. Sennott has also served as a correspondent for PBS FRONTLINE and the PBS NewsHour. He has contributed news analysis to the BBC, CNN, NPR, MSNBC and others.

He is a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. In 2016, Sennott was accepted into the DRK portfolio of leading social entrepreneurs who can make a difference.

Rights

The empty promises of the Taliban on press freedom in Afghanistan

The disturbing photographs that depict blue and red welts across the backs of journalists say all one needs...

Columns

In Afghanistan, truth was sacrificed and lessons were forgotten

“In war, truth is the first casualty.” Those words trace back to Aeschylus, the father of Greek tragedy....

War and Peace

After the collapse of hope, uncertainty and fear for thousands of Afghans

Editor's note: This story continues the coverage of the stories of several Afghans featured in our recent story...

Season 10 – The Whistleblower

Epilogue: Truth Is the First Casualty

Spotify | NPR One | Apple | Stitcher | iHeartRadio | Google | Amazon In war, truth is the first casualty. It's a military maxim attributed to Aeschylus, the father...

War and Peace

In Afghanistan, a collapse of hope

Editor's note: This story was originally published in the Boston Globe on August 19th. The situation of the...

Season 10 – The Whistleblower

Extra: Into the Archive

Spotify | NPR One | Apple | Stitcher | iHeartRadio | Google | Amazon A class of college students at UMass Amherst became the first group of researchers to take...

Columns

The Taliban waited out the American empire

KABUL - “You have the watches; we have the time.” I first heard that expression from a local...

Season 10 – The Whistleblower

‘The Doomsday Machine’

Spotify | NPR One | Apple | Stitcher | iHeartRadio | Google | Amazon Before he was helping plan the Vietnam War, Ellsberg was working at Rand Corporation as a...

Season 10 – The Whistleblower

‘Most Dangerous Man’

Spotify | NPR One | Apple | Stitcher | iHeartRadio | Google | Amazon "We gotta get this [S.O.B.]," President Richard Nixon is recorded saying of Daniel Ellsberg. The president's...

Season 10 – The Whistleblower

The Presses Roll

Spotify | NPR One | Apple | Stitcher | iHeartRadio | Google | Amazon On September 30, 1969, Daniel Ellsberg opened his newspaper to a story out of Vietnam that...

Season 10 – The Whistleblower |Episode 2

The Force of Truth

Spotify | NPR One | Apple | Stitcher | iHeartRadio | Google | Amazon Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press knowing he could face the rest of...

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