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Charles M. Sennott

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. Subscribe to his newsletter on Substack: https://charlessennott.substack.com/
Columns

Authoritarianism’s rise and journalism’s fall are intersecting

Editor's note: This column was originally published in The Boston Globe on October 28, 2022 Brazil’s runoff presidential...

Oct 28, 2022
Columns

The time for more diverse leaders in newsrooms is now

They say, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. But for the constellation of GroundTruth stars who are...

Aug 05, 2022
Columns

A new chapter in GroundTruth’s story

BOSTON - For the better part of 40 years, I’ve been practicing the craft of journalism and the...

Jun 30, 2022
Media Industry

Trevor Noah got the press corps thinking about how we need to be better. Here’s an area we really need to rethink.

Watching Trevor Noah at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner this weekend was a good chance to laugh and...

May 03, 2022
Columns

The story of their lives

Editor’s note: This column was originally published by The Boston Globe on April 25, 2022 KYIV, Ukraine — They...

May 01, 2022
War and Peace

A small nonprofit labors to fill the aid gap as Ukrainians ask, ‘What is taking so long?’

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by The Boston Globe on April 25, 2022 KHARKIV, Ukraine —...

Apr 25, 2022
Columns

Deaths of journalists in Ukraine and the fragility of a free press

For journalists who choose to report on war, the risks are well known going in. And sadly, we...

Mar 18, 2022
Columns

The nonprofits charting a new way for local news

We need to get better at telling the story of the crisis in journalism and what it means...

Jan 28, 2022
Columns

Why we need more reporters covering extremism

BOSTON — American democracy is in more peril than we realize, and that message came through loud and...

Jan 07, 2022
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...

Sep 13, 2021
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....

Sep 10, 2021
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