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.

Middle East

The 50-year-old image that still defines the Six-Day War

JERUSALEM – The photograph is iconic. The camera angle tilts upward and it frames the rugged but idealistic...

Father Salem Yunis, from Aleppo, Syria, and Father Oscar Rodriguez, from El Salvador, stand on the remnants of an ancient Roman road in Emmaus, which today lies in West Bank territory. (Photo by Heidi Levine/GroundTruth)

Middle East

The Road to Emmaus

The Road to Emmaus: When Christianity disappears in the land where the faith began Father Salem Yunis, from...

Israeli border police stand on guard as Christian pilgrims from Serbia carry wooden crosses along Via Dolorosa, or “The Way of Sorrow," in the Old City of Jerusalem on April 14, 2017. (Photo by Heidi Levine/GroundTruth)

Faith

The Crucifixion

The Crucifixion: On the Via Dolorosa, Christians react to a rise in Islamic militant attacks Israeli border police...

People walk along a streets in Havana, Cuba. Diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States were re-established during Barack Obama's presidency – but now, with Donald Trump in office, the future of these diplomatic relations are somewhat unclear. (Photo by Pedro Szekely/Flickr)

Democracy

The uncertain future of US-Cuba relations

HAVANA — On Obispo Street, past the shops hawking Che Guevara T-shirts and the signature blue neon of...

View from the window of an airplane.

Media Industry

To fix journalism, we can start by not looking down on ‘flyover’ states

On a JetBlue flight from New York to San Francisco to attend a conference on “The Future of...

Caitlin McNally takes photos on a GroundTruth Fellowship in Antarctica.

Announcements

Make Journalism Great Again: A message from GroundTruth’s Charles Sennott

Dear friends, At the end of a dramatic year, the political landscape has shifted revealing deep divisions and...

“The goal is not to fear Trump, but for Trump to fear you," wrote Ari Goldman, a professor of journalism at Columbia University. (Photo by Elizabeth Herman/GroundTruth)

Media Industry

Fixing our media starts with the next generation of journalists

Okay, we got through Thanksgiving. As families and friends across America came together for the holiday meal, most...

War and Peace

A journey of remembrance: Jim Foley

This remembrance was delivered at “The Task of Witnessing: A Symposium in Honor of James W. Foley” at...

War and Peace

Faces of Syria’s Lost Generation

BEKAA VALLEY, Lebanon – They are two faces of what many here fear is a “lost generation” of...

Middle East

Refugee crisis in Jordan reaches a ‘boiling point’

AMMAN, Jordan — The refugee camps layered across the hillsides here look like an archaeological excavation, revealing the sediment...

War and Peace

Reporter’s Notebook: Tahrir Square, Five Years Later

CAIRO – Where Egyptian demonstrators locked arms five years ago in the iconic protests of Tahrir Square, there was...

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