Awards (continued)

The Monitor has received some 400 awards since it began publishing in 1908. Listed below are the awards received since 1980, the beginning of our online archive. [Recent awards]

2003

2003 Overseas Press Club
The Hal Boyle Award, Citation
Recipient: Dan Murphy, How Al Qaeda lit the Bali fuse

2003 American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors
Arts & Entertainment Commentary, 2nd Place
Recipient: Ron Charles

2003 National Journalism Award for Editorial Cartoons
Recipient: Clay Bennett

2003 National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award for Editorial Cartoons
Recipient: Clay Bennett

2002

2002 American Association for the Advancement of Science Journalism Award
Recipient: Peter Spotts

2002 Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Awards
Editorial Cartooning
Recipient: Clay Bennett

2002 American Association for the Advancement of Science Journalism Award
Recipient: Peter Spotts

2002 Online Journalism Award
Feature Journalism: Affiliated for All Aboard?

2002 Pulitzer Prize in Journalism, Editorial Cartooning
Recipient: Clay Bennett

2002 Education Writers Association

• News Feature or Issue Package, 1st Prize
  Recipients: Stacy Teicher, Marjorie Coeyman, Sara Steindorf, "Opening the Book on Race"
  
  
• Special Section or Page, 1st Prize
  Recipients: Mark Clayton, Amelia Newcomb, Marjorie Coeyman, Mary Kuhl, "Core Concerns"
  
  
• Series or Group of Articles, 2nd Prize
  Recipients: Marjorie Coeyman, Mark Clayton, "Driven"

2002 Iris Molotsky Award for Investigative Reporting in Higher Education
Recipient: Mark Clayton, "The Gender Equation"

2001

2001 Sigma Delta Chi Award for Editorial Cartooning, 1st Place
Recipient: Clay Bennett

2001 John Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition
1st Place, Clay Bennett

2001 Education Writers Association
Feaure Writing, 1st Prize: "Acting With Conviction"
Recipients: Mary Wiltenburg, Andy Nelson

2001 Digital Edge Award
Best News Site, Circulation 75,000-250,000

2001 EPpy Award
Best Overall US Newspaper Online Service, Circulation 50,000-99,999

2001 Editorial Cartoonist of the Year, Editor & Publisher Magazine
Recipient: Clay Bennett

2000: Overseas Press Club, Cameron Barr: Investigative Reporting
A Brutal Exit: Battalion 745, 1st Place

2000

2000: Sigma Delta Chi Awards, Cameron Barr: Investigative Reporting
A Brutal Exit: Battalion 745, 1st Place

2000 EPpy Awards
Best Overall US Newspaper Online Service, Circulation under 100,000

2000: National Awards for Education Reporting
Education Writers Association, 2nd place
The Math Meltdown, Recipients: Marjorie Coeyman, Mark Clayton, and Amelia Newcomb

2000 National Headliner Award for Editorial Cartoons
Recipient: Clay Bennett

1999

1999 EPpy Awards
Finalist, Best Overall US Newspaper Online Service, Circulation under 100,000

National Awards for Education Reporting
Education Writers Association, 1st Prize, Series: "Reinventing our Public Schools"
Recipients: Gail Chaddock, Mark Clayton, Stephanie Cook, Marjorie Coeyman

National Headliner Award
Editorial Cartoon
Recipient: Clay Bennett

1997

NEWA Education Writing Awards
Second Place
Recipient: Shelley Donald Coolidge

NENA Publick Occurrence Award
One of eight selected to receive this award
Recipient: Child Sex Trade: Battling a Scourge
Mark Clayton, Cameron Barr, Marshall Ingwerson

1996

The George Polk Awards For Foreign Reporting
Recipient: David Rohde

Overseas Press Club of America
The Hal Boyle Award - Best Newspaper Reporting from Abroad
Recipient: David Rohde

The Paul Tobenkin Award
Columbia School of Journalism
Recipient: David Rohde

Sigma Delta Chi Award
The Society of Professional Journalists
Newspaper Foreign Correspondence
Recipient: David Rohde

IRE Invesitgative Reporters and Editors
Recipient: David Rohde

AASFE Excellence-in-Feature-Writing Award
General Features; Honorable Mention
Recipient: David Holmstrom

1995

Overseas Press Club
Citation: The Thomas Nast Award (best cartoon on foreign affairs)
Recipient: Jeff Danziger

Herbert Giradet Art Award
War & Humanitarian Reporting
Recipient: Jeff Danziger

1994

American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors
Excellence in Feature Writing Competition
Third Place in Arts Criticism
Recipient: Christopher Andreae

Society of Newspaper Design
Best of Newspaper Design Competition
Recipient: The Christian Science Monitor
The Rootless Chinese
John Van Pelt
Karen Norris Schneider
Angela Ulm

1993

National Press Photographers
National Quarterly Clip Contest
Recipients: Marianne LePelley and John Van Pelt
Earth Friendly Eating

Red Cross Good Neighbor Award
Recipient: The Christian Science Monitor

Aviation/Space Writers Association
1993 Certificate of Merit
Recipient: Robert C. Cowen

Society of Newspaper Design
Bronze Medals:
Overall Design
News Section
Feature Photojournalism

Award of Excellence: Overall Design
Features Section
Design Portfolio
Recipient: Karen Everbeck

Single Subject Series
 Recipient: Lens and Light

Portfolio of Photojournalism
 Recipient: Melanie Stetson Freeman

Feature Photojournalism
 Recipient: Melanie Stetson Freemen

Education of Public Inquiry and International Citizenship
Tufts University, Medford, MA
Media Forum Award
Recipient: The Christian Science Monitor's international news coverage for "in-depth, analytical reporting on issues of ethnicity, religion, and nationalism from Amman to Zagreb, from Azerbaijan to Zaire."

New England Associated Press News Executive Association (NEAPNEA)
Newspapers over 60,000 in New England
Design Categories:

Special Coverage
First Place Farming a shrinking planet
Recipients: John Van Pelt, Karen Everbeck, Robert Harbison
Second Place (tie with Boston Globe) Islam and Democracy
Recipients: John Van Pelt, Karen Everbeck, Neal Menschel

Lifestyle Pages
Honorable Mention
Recipient: Karen Everbeck

Photography Categories
Portrait
Second Place Concerned Citizen
Recipient: Melanie Stetson Freeman

Photo Illustration
Second Place Apple/globe food page
Recipient: Marianne LePelley

Society for Professional Journalists
Sigma Delta Chi Award for Washington Correspondence
Bronze Metal
Recipient: John Dillin for his 5 part series Reforming Congress

1992

Population Institute Global Media Award
Best major Daily category for an eight-page special report published 7/8/92
Recipient: The Christian Science Monitor:
Articles by staff writers George Moffett (Washington), Brad Knickerbocker (Rio de Janeiro), David Clark Scott (Mexico City), Sheila Tefft (Bangkok), and Cameron Barr (Dhaka, Bangladesh) and contributors Julia Michaels (Brazil) Shelley Emling (Guatemala City), and Carol Berger (Cairo).
Designed by John Van Pelt

Society of Newspaper Design
Bronze Medal Points of Compass on Tajikistan
Recipients: Karen Everbeck and Shirley Horn

Bronze Medal Portfolio of Illustration
Recipient: Tom Hughes

Award of Excellence
Overall Design Single-Subject Series China's Villages
Recipients: James and Ann Scott Tyson

Coverage of 1992 Elections
Portfolio of Photographic Designs
Recipient: Melanie Stetson Freeman

Portfolio of Graphics
Recipient: Shirley Horn

1991

New England Newspaper Association
Public Occurrences Award
Superior Achievement Award for Global Frontiers series
Recipient: The Christian Science Monitor

Society of Newspaper Design
Silver Medal: Ecotourism: Survival of the Galapagos
Recipient: David Holmstrom
Photos by Melanie Stetson Freemen
Design by John Van Pelt, published August 1991

Bronze Medal: Overall Design

Award of Excellence:
News Coverage Gulf War, Democracy in the USSR
Single-subject Series National Parks at 75, American's Parks under Siege
Points of the Compass Mega-Cities: Global Frontiers
Portfolio of Information Graphics by John Van Pelt
Regularly Appearing Feature Section
Portfolio of Books Pages

1989

Society of Professional Journalists
Sigma Delta Chi for General Reporting in circulation of more than 100,000
Recipient: Gary Thatcher, Chemical and Biological Weapons Series 12/13-16/89

Society of Newspaper Design
Tenth Edition Design Competition
Awards of Excellence for design of paper
Recipients: Greg Paul, designer and consultants Brady and Paul Communications

Awards of Excellence for editorial-page design
Recipient: Brian Lies, illustrator and Cynthia Hanson editorial page art director for illustration headlined Earth Tree

Award of Excellence for design of Agenda 2000 reprint
Recipient: Robin Jareaux designer and David Suter illustrator

Awards of Excellence in the category of portfolio of illustration
Recipients: Cynthia Hanson editorial-page art director and Polly Becker, illustrator

The Massachusetts Teachers Association
1989 Award for Excellence in Education Reporting
Recipient: Robert Marquand - for continuing coverage of education

1988

Scripps Howard Foundation
Roy W. Howard Award - Finalist Recipient: Kristin Helmore and Sara Terry Children in Darkness: the exploitation of innocence

New England Newspaper Association
Newspaper of the Year Award - Award of Merit (special category for CMS)
Recipient: The Christian Science Monitor

Overseas Press Club

Aviation/Space Writers Association
Award of Excellence
Recipient: Mark Clayton Packed flyways worry hard-pressed controllers

Aviation/Space Writers Association
Award of Excellence
Recipient: Robert C. Cowen Soviet Space Program: Up, Up and Away

Babson College
Honorary Degree
Recipient: Katherine Fanning

Harvard University
Honorary Degree
Recipient: Katherine Fanning

Smith College
Honorary Degree
Recipient: Katherine Fanning

Action on Smoking and Health
Certificate of Honor and Accomplishment
Recipient: The Christian Science Monitor

Department of US Treasury
Recipient: The Christian Science Monitor

1987

National Women's Political Caucus
1987 Media Awards - Newspaper Editorial
Recipient: Ruth Walker for exceptional coverage in 1986 of women in political life-women as voters, as candidates, as political activities and as officeholders.

Overseas Press Club
Citation, Honorable Mention
Recipient: David Winder series on secrecy in Great Britain

Council on the Advancement and Support of Education(CASE)
Excellence in Reporting Bronze Medal
Recipient: Robert Marquand cover story and side bars for the pullout section on Moral Education

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication - International Communication Division
Recipient: The Christian Science Monitor
for distinguished service to international communication

National Association of Black Journalists
Print, General News Third Place
Recipient: Kristin Helmore and Karen Lain

National Association of Black Journalists
Photojournalism Third Place
Recipient: Neal Menschel, Exiles Among Us

The Society of Newspaper Design
Awarded art and graphics with two Silver Awards and 12 Awards of Excellence in eight categories of the 1987 awards competition.
Recipients: Joan Forbes, Robin Jareaux, Susan Tyner, Lisa Remillard, and Heidi Mack.

The Forum Award Committee for Energy Awareness
Recipients: Elizabeth Pond, Paul Quinn-Judge, Robert Cowen, Tim Aeppel, and Peter Spotts for Nuclear Power after Chernobyl

Presidential End Hunger Award 1987
Media/Communications Category
Recipient: The Christian Science Monitor supported by grants from A.I.D. has cited the Monitor for its excellent coverage of the topic of world hunger

World Hunger Media Award 1987
Best photojournalism
Recipient: Melanie Stetson Freeman for the series Children in Darkness
Award is to honor those members of the media who have made significant contributions to bringing public attention to the critical issues of world hunger.

National Press Photographers Association
First Place Monthly clip contest - July
Recipient: Melanie Stetson Freeman, Children in Darkness

New England Associated Press News Executives Association
First Place for Series Category
Recipient: Dan Wood and Brook Larmer, Peacemakers

1986

Overseas Press Club
The Bob Considine Award
Recipient: Joseph C. Harsch. Ten columns by Mr. Harsch won first prize in Class 2-The Bob Considine Award for the best daily newspaper interpretation on foreign affairs - sponsored by the Overseas Press Club. This is the second time Harsch won this award; he won in 1976 as well.

Overseas Press Club
Madeline Dane Ross Award
Recipient: Kristin Helmore for her five-part series, The Neglected Resource: Women in the Third World
won for the foreign correspondent showing a concern for the human condition.

National Headliner Awards
Recipient: Curtis J. Sitomer Six Justice columns by Mr. Sitomer won a National Headliner Award for Consistently Outstanding Special Column, which "speaks both to the rights of the individuals and their responsibilities" to the world in which they live.

Vanguard Award
Recipient: Kristin Helmore's series The Neglected Resource: Women in the Third World was chosen as a finalist for the Vanguard Award from Women in Communications, Inc. Helmore's entry featured and recognized at the September WICI National Professional Conference in New York.

Aviation/Space Writers Association
Recipient: Robert C. Cowen, the Monitor's Natural Science Editor, won the Northeast Region AWA award for reporting on space (newspapers under 200,000) for his zee-page spread, Manned Mission to Mars. This article will be submitted for national recognition.

Golden Tomato Award
Recipient: John Edward Young the Judges Trophy in Hunt's Great Spaghetti Hunt, "For your recognized excellence as a gourmet and your concern for the less fortunate in your community."

Society for Newspaper Design
Recipient: William Palmstrom
Award for excellence for the map of Africa which accompanied the Blueprint for Africa series

Society of Newspaper Design
Recipient: Sue B. Tyner Staff designer and Robin Jareaux shared an Award for Excellence with for travel page design.

Society of Newspaper Design
Recipient: Robin Jareaux, Twelve Awards for Excellence

1. Special News Topics: A Year of Helping - Blueprint for Africa
2. Special News Topics: Editor's Choice - Star Wars: Can it Work?
3. Single Subject Series Design - Shades of Communism
4. Single Subject Series Design - Video Culture
5. Single Subject Series Design - The Neglected Resource: Women in the Third World
6. Single Subject Series Design - Star Wars: Can it Work?
7. Page Design: Entertainment - Audio Systems Today
8. Information Graphics Design/Illustration - Star Wars: Can it Work? (part 1)
9. Information Graphics Design/Illustration - Star Wars: Can It Work? (part 2)
10. Newspaper Reprint Design - Star Wars: Can it Work (part 2)
11. Newspaper Reprint Design - Video Culture
12. Regularly Appearing Section: Travel - Travel

New England Associated Press
News Executives Association
Recipient: Connie Shryack, Freelance design artist for The Christian Science Monitor, won third place in the Lifestyle Page Design competition for her work Adding a non-building.

New England Associated Press
News Executives Association
Recipient: Robin Jareaux won several awards for Monitor design:

1. Page One Design, Honorable Mention CSM 5/9/86 edition
2. Lifestyle Page Design, First Place The Orient Express CSM 5/9/86 edition
3. Special Coverage Design:
   • First Place, Unmasking Terrorism, CSM 5/13/86 edition
   • Third Place, Star Wars, CSM 11/14/86 edition

New England Associated Press
News Executives Association
Recipient: Melanie Stetson Freeman, Staff Photographer for The Christian Science Monitor, won second and third place prizes for portrait photography of Guatemalan Natives.

Monterey Institute of International Studies
Recipient: Earl W. Foell; "We are proud to honor your distinguished career as the leader of a great international newspaper. Your personal and professional integrity is recognized worldwide. Strong in spiritual values which guide your thought and action, you believe in the power of ides, the centrality of individual freedom and the impact of thought on history. Civilization advances under these tenets. Talented writer,educator, internationalist, musician, you have earned the respect of thoughtful people around the world, on this occasion we ward our honorary degree: Doctor of Humane Letters."

World Environment Festival
Recipient: The Christian Science Monitor

E. W. Scripps School of Journalism of Ohio University
Carr Van Anda Award
Recipient: Katherine Fanning; "For her directorship at The Christian Science Monitor which has brought new distinction to that internationally acclaimed publication. For her strong leadership of the Anchorage Daily News where she served as editor and publisher from 1971 to 1983, during which time the Daily News won a Pulitzer Prize, while becoming Alaska's largest newspaper. For her adherence to the highest professional standards of journalism so important to the democratic process."

New England Women's Press Association
Marjorie Mills Award
Recipient: finalist - Marilyn Gardnerm Older women: who cares about the caregivers
Recipient: honorable mention-Kristin Helmore, Raising a child alone

Best Columnist
Recipient: First Place - Marilyn Gardner
Recipient: finalist - John Gould

Best Political Writer
Recipient: honorable mention - George Merry

Best Lifestyle - Daily
Recipient: finalist - Hilary DeVries, Meet Heloise

The Population Institute
Best Global Series Award
Recipient: Kristin Helmore, The Neglected Resource: Women in the Third World

The Fund for Animals
Genesis Award
Recipient: The Christian Science Monitor which has throughout its long history focused attention on, and encouraged solutions to, animal issues from endangered species to food animals, from medical research to the seal hunt.

1985

International Business Center of New England, Inc..
Recipient: The Christian Science Monitor was present for distinguished achievement; "A world class newspaper, respected universally for its excellence in reporting and interpreting the international environment in which we live and work. Recognized today as a standard for clear and objective analysis, the Monitor becomes for so many doing international business an invaluable tool in management decision making. We salute the Monitor for what it contributes to better understanding in this highly complex world."

New England Women's Press Association
Recipient: The Christian Science Monitor

Society of Newspaper Design
Recipient: Robin Jareaux from a field of 7,853 entries; the Monitor won four awards in the Society of Newspaper Design's sixth annual competition. The winning entries were a Travel section and a Personal Finance section ( in categories for regularly appearing travel and business sections), a zee-page (People under attack as an example of news analysis, and the David Willis Hunger in Africa series) for a news project on a single subject.

Americans United for Separation of Church and State
Recipient: The Christian Science Monitor was honored for its consistent editorial support of church-state separation. It was the first newspaper to be selected for the Americans United Religious Liberty Award. Curtis J. Sitomer accepted the award for the newspaper.

Population Institute
Recipient: David K. Willis won the Population Institute's prize for best series on population worldwide in 1984 for his series, Hunger in Africa. He was selected from a field of 2000 journalists. The Population Institute gives the award in conjunction with the United Nations Fund for Population Activities.

International Religious Liberties Association
Recipient: Curtis J. Sitomer was presented an award for his Justice column and general coverage of religious liberty issues.

Kenny Rogers
1985 World Hunger Media Awards
Recipient: David K. Willis, Third World correspondent, was a co-winner of this award for best newspaper coverage with his Hunger in Africa series. They lauded his "richly-detailed, often inspiration individual stories of the work being done to relieve the famine," as well as "serious reforms-political, cultural, economic, and above all agricultural needed to effect long-term solutions."

Benjamin Fine Award
Recipients: Keith Henderson and Robert Marquand. The National Association of Secondary School Principals presented this award for the pull-out section on critical thinking, looking at textbooks and textbook reforms. They won in the category of Newspaper Supplement on Education.

1984

Matrix Award
Recipient: Katherine W. Fanning, Monitor Editor won this award (from Women in Communications, Inc.) for "her extensive experience in print media." Award honors people who have "distinguished themselves in journalism, communications, and/or as community leaders."

NENA Newspaper of the Year
Recipient: The Christian Science Monitor received special praise from judges in the New England Newspaper Association for being "in a class by itself."

Editor and Publisher Promotion
Awards Competition
Recipient: The Christian Science Monitor won first prize for multi-media promoting and a Certificate of Merit for circulation/editorial promotion for its Testimonial Ad campaign.

Society of Newspaper Design
Recipient: Robin Jareaux.
From a field of 6,045 entries, the Monitor won an "award of excellence" for its travel section in the Society of Newspaper Design's fifth annual competition.

Gold Star Award
Recipient: Jim Bencivenga won an Award of Distinction for Ask a school custodian what he did on his summer vacation (8/23/83) as a feature article in a newspaper with circulation over 50,000. This award was presented by the Massachusetts Association of School Committees.

American Institute of Architects
Recipient: The Christian Science Monitor received a citation for outstanding coverage of architecture.

Benjamin Fine Journalism Award
Recipient: Jim Bencivenga's interview Two retiring teachers view schools today and yesterday (5/9/84) was awarded a Benjamin Fine Award (as a single education article in a newspaper with circulation between 100,001 and 500,000) from the National Association of Secondary School Principals.

Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters
Recipient: Kay Fanning - Northeastern University

Honorary Doctorate of Arts
Recipient: Kay Fanning - Pine Manor College

1983

Benjamin Fine Award
Recipient: The Christian Science Monitor won for outstanding education reporting in the series category, for pullout sections on "Education and Business" and "Education and Foundations."

Benjamin Fine Award
Recipient: Jim Bencivenga won this award, on of 13 given annually by the National Association of Secondary School Principals, in the single article category for outstanding education reporting for his article on merit pay in Long Island Schools.

Massachusetts Engineers' Council
Recipient: Francine Kiefer's High Tech at Home series won first place in the Council's New England Media Award contest. In addition to this, she was cited for Distinguished Reporting on Technical and Scientific Matters and the "most significant contribution in 1982 to public knowledge and understanding of the role of engineering and technology in contemporary American life."

Population Action Council
Recipient: Richard L. Strout won the Best Columnist Award.

Population Action Council
Recipient: David Winder won a citation of merit for Distinguished Journalistic Efforts in the Best US Daily category. His winning entry was, Why the world population explosion fizzled: a tale of sharply changed village attitudes.

Population Action Council
Recipient: The Christian Science Monitor won a Citation of Merit for distinguished journalist efforts for David Winder's coverage and other Monitor stories on world population events.

Suffolk University
Recipient: James N. Goodsell was honored "for his vigorous work . . . and selfless service to the Hispanic community of Massachusetts." He received praise and a certificate during a Latin American festival sponsored by Suffolk University.

Edward J. Meeman Awards
Recipient: Jonathan Harsch won the Meeman Award (for conservation writing), sponsored by Scripps-Howard, for his four-part series, Save the soil.

ASNE Distinguished Writers Awards
Recipient: Rushworth Kidder was cited as one of two finalists in the Documentary category of the American Society of Newspaper Editors annual contest. His entry was composed of his Five Families series and two Home Forum essays.

Livingston Awards
Recipient: Greg Lamb was a Livingston Awards finalist.

New England Women's Press Association
Recipient: Melvin Maddocks three columns Neither victims nor executioners, The case of the vanishing telegram, and In defense of procrastination, earned him recognition as Best Columnist in the NEWPA annual competition.

New England Women' Press Association
Recipient: Hilary DeVires won first place in the category of Magazine Journalism for her articles, Marva Colins: Chicago's Superteacher under fire and Robert Penn Warren: Still a yearner still a wonderer.

Media Research Institute
Recipient: The Christian Science Monitor won sixth place in the top 15 dailies according to a survey on newspaper popularity (conducted by California State University, Northridge). The paper also received 11 first place listings and support form different regions of the nation.

ASCAP, Inc.
Deems Taylor Award
Recipient: David Owens.
The prestigious ASCAP, Inc., awarded its Deems Taylor Award for the best newspaper or magazine article on music in 1982. Mr. Owens writes a monthly series entitled Inside 20th-Century Music.

Gold Star Awards
Recipient: Tim Aeppel was given an Award of Distinction for his article entitled Computers woo students back to learning in small town.

1982

Aviation/Space Writers Association

World Hunger Media Awards November
Recipient: Richard Harley
Mr. Harley was awarded Honorable Mention for Best Newspaper Coverage(Feast or Famine), for "outstanding and continuous coverage of the issues surrounding the scourge of world hunger."

1980

INPA Eastern Region Conference
Certificate of Merit
Recipient: The Christian Science Monitor