Charles M. Sennott

Charles Sennott is the founder 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.

Columns

“Choose Truth” to defend journalism

This week I had a chance to sit down with the legendary South African editor and innovator in...

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Lessons from 9/11: Rediscovering unity at a time of deep division

BOSTON— Driving toward Logan International Airport on Wednesday, the intense clarity of the sky reminded me of that...

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Can journalism answer the challenge of AI before it’s too late?

As Americans celebrate Labor Day weekend, it is usually lost amid the parades and family barbecues that the...

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‘Not going back’; Kamala Harris pushes forward in Chicago

On the morning after the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, it feels like Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech and...

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Days after Trump’s panel, NABJ journalists reflect on disinformation and Black voters

Through the last half century, the National Association of Black Journalists has emerged as a vital voice in...

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How the Twin Cities’ Sahan Journal chronicles a diverse Minnesota

Our work with newsrooms across the country offers us a unique vantage point of how cities and towns...

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Report for America ‘movement’ gathers in Twin Cities, announces GroundTruth Award

MINNEAPOLIS - From every corner of the United States, nearly 200 of our Report for America corps members...

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Independence day and the crisis of American democracy

BOSTON - This Independence Day, it felt like America is not so much celebrating as soberly pondering the...

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A double helix of free speech and press freedom

There were two seismic events last week with the release of WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange after a plea...

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Juneteenth. A promise and America’s challenge to live up to it.

For more than 150 years, the day now known as Juneteenth has been sacred in many Black communities,...

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A reporter’s call to service in Ukraine, and what is left behind

KYIV - One year ago, news broke that the dam at Ukraine’s Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant was destroyed...

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