Word: monitoring
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...urgent sense of timeliness is not normally associated with the staff of the Monitor, which has had a reputation for keeping 8-to-4:30 bankers' hours-nor, for that matter, with the act of receiving the paper, which is distributed almost entirely by mail. The Monitor, moreover, is not a commercial venture that must answer to the marketplace but the official voice of the prosperous First Church of Christ, Scientist. The founder, Mary Baker Eddy, declared that Christian Science had a religious duty to publish the paper. All the senior editors are Christian Scientists (Fanning converted...
...executives were given a mandate for change by the church's board, which has grown discontented with mounting losses and, even more, the drop in U.S. circulation from 240,000 in the late 1960s to 150,000 last year (the Monitor also distributes a weekly edition to 16,000 subscribers). The paper's readers tend to be faithful, but they have been dying off without being replaced: 39% are 65 or older, while only 28% are under 45. Admits Hoagland: "We should not take a loyal readership for granted." The age of the Monitor's following...
...regime is not altogether popular with the staff. Some Monitor reporters complain that the resources being spent on redesign and business promotion are diverted from more substantial news coverage. Fanning has also offended some veterans by diminishing the roles of elderly Monitor stars, including Godfrey Sperling Jr., 68, who was shifted from Washington bureau chief to columnist. More fundamental, some staff members fret that the paper's highbrow tone may be lowered. In the cultural section, for example, Fanning plans to give added space and emphasis to leisure and recreation...
...merits, her son Frederick Field and his half brother Marshall Field V put the paper where she never got a job, the Sun-Times, up for sale. The decision "saddened" Fanning. But she reacted in a way that might serve as her axiom in giving rebirth to the Monitor. Said she: "I hate to see traditions die. But I do not believe in tradition for tradition's sake." -By William A. Henry...
DIED. Roscoe Drummond, 81, journalist and author who for half a century chronicled power and politics in Washington; in a nursing home in Princeton, N.J. Starting out in 1924 as a reporter for the Christian Science Monitor, the witty, diminutive (under 5 ft.) Drummond rose to executive editor and during the 1940s ran the paper's Washington bureau. There he covered eleven U.S. Presidents, largely in his thrice-weekly "State of the Nation" column, which was syndicated in 150 newspapers after he joined the New York Herald Tribune...