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.

War and Peace

Returning to sites of Kosovo’s horrors, signs of healing and injustice

PRISTINA, Kosovo — In the Balkans, the 28th of June has resonated on the calendar through centuries of...

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Kosovo’s ‘House of Cards,’ 15 years after liberation

PRISTINA, Kosovo — There were no big parades, no visible celebrations and hardly a public mention of the...

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After a century of conflict, searching for peace in Bosnia

SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina — The footsteps of the assassin are marked near the bridge here where a...

Africa

Once enemies, a pastor and an imam wage peace in Nigeria

KADUNA, Nigeria — For years, they were out to kill each other. And they almost did. But now...

Africa

The quest to build an ‘early warning system’ to stop Nigeria’s Muslim-Christian violence

KADUNA, Nigeria — The waters of the River Kaduna swirl forward under a bridge that spans the long,...

Africa

Nigerians touched by communal violence talk in the absence of justice

KAFANCHAN, Nigeria — The highway from Kaduna wove through a maze of military checkpoints and then continued past...

Africa

Surge in Nigeria’s communal violence punctuates peace conference

KADUNA, Nigeria — The momentum of communal violence here doesn’t pause for peace conferences. At the close of...

Africa

Peacemakers gather under heavy guard to confront Nigeria’s Christian-Muslim violence

KADUNA, Nigeria — Soldiers with automatic weapons flanked our convoy and armored personnel carriers guarded the entrance as...

War and Peace

Egypt’s ‘deep state’ never left

CAIRO — Egyptians call it the “deep state.” And it was there all along for anyone who wanted...

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In Egypt 2013, democracy means military rule

By Louisa Loveluck CAIRO — On a backstreet on the east side of this sprawling city, a ragged crowd...

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A divided Egyptian family reunites to break the Ramadan fast

CAIRO — A crescent moon appeared through a cloud of tear gas and offered thin light over a...

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