Higher standards for newspapers

Kim Shippey with contributions from Stephen T. Gray

A few weeks ago, Stephen T. Gray joined The Christian Science Monitor as Managing Publisher. This is a new position at the Monitor in which he will supervise the paper's circulation, marketing, advertising sales, production, and distribution departments.

Mr. Gray is an experienced writer, editor, and publisher, and came to the Monitor from a position as president and editor of the Monroe Evening News, a daily newspaper in Michigan. He talked with our news editor Kim Shippey shortly after he arrived in Boston.

"The U.S. news media get a lot of criticism these days, and much of it is deserved," said Mr. Gray. "But people who long to see a purer, more constructive kind of journalism often lose sight of the fact that the media are relentlessly driven by demand. Today more than ever, editors and news producers are trying to figure out what their audiences want and give it to them. In that sense, what people see in the media is a reflection of society itself."

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