David Cook became senior editor and Washington bureau chief of the Christian Science Monitor in August 2001. Before that, he was editor of the Monitor from August 1994 to July 2001. During his term, the Monitor launched csmonitor.com and won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. From 1991 to 1994, Cook was editor of Monitor Broadcasting, which produced daily radio news programs heard on 200 public radio stations. Earlier, he was managing editor of the Monitor ’s Emmy Award-winning nightly television news program “World Monitor.”

In 1977, Cook was a Bagehot Fellow in Business and Economic Journalism at Columbia University. He is a graduate of Principia College, attended the Advanced Management Program at Michigan State University, and served in the US Army.

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Listen to Cook describe hosting the Monitor ’s “newsmaker” breakfasts. Length: 1 min 9 sec