Charles Sennott

There were two seismic events last week with the release of WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange after a plea deal with the United States and the start of the proceedings against the Wall Street Journal’s correspondent Evan Gershkovich, who was falsely accused of espionage in Russia. They are like a double helix, two linear strands that

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. </br> </br> Reporting on the front lines of wars and insurgencies in at least 20 countries, inc…

Our work with newsrooms across the country offers us a unique vantage point of how cities and towns are evolving, and it is always revealing to see what issues are coming to the fore and how communities are approaching them. In too many places, the local news operations are stressed and declining, lacking the resources

Through the last half century, the National Association of Black Journalists has emerged as a vital voice in American journalism, one that has held the media industry to account and fostered opportunities for professional advancement as well as mentoring for a new generation. Its annual gathering has also invited candidates to the center stage to

As Americans celebrate Labor Day weekend, it is usually lost amid the parades and family barbecues that the tradition of honoring this day at the end of Summer was born out of recognition of the often violent struggle of workers against the forces of unbridled capitalism in the second Industrial Revolution. These days, the Labor

BOSTON— Driving toward Logan International Airport on Wednesday, the intense clarity of the sky reminded me of that moment on September 11th, 2001 that changed everything. I was thinking about how to understand this 23rd anniversary of the attack and the unity of our response, and I was left pondering how different – and how

This week I had a chance to sit down with the legendary South African editor and innovator in journalism, Branko Brkic, the founder of The Daily Maverick, which is a host newsroom for our Report for the World program. To mark World News Day tomorrow and to sound the alarm on the crisis in journalism

This Monday, October 7th, will mark the one-year anniversary of the surprise Hamas terrorist attack that killed 1,200 Israelis and triggered the Israel Defense Force’s military campaign in Gaza that has taken the lives of an estimated 42,000 Palestinians, the vast majority of whom are civilians, and further ignited a regional war with Lebanon that

WASHINGTON – As America braces for what increasingly looks like the era of a strongman under the next term of Donald Trump, a Nobel laureate and defender of the free press made a call to arms against the efforts by authoritarians to curtail free speech. Maria Ressa, speaking at the 40th anniversary of the International

In Baku, Azerbaijan, heads of state, leading climate scientists, environmental activists and regulatory officials from some 190 countries all gathered this week for the 29th meeting of the U.N. Climate Change Conference, better known as COP. The stakes are as high as ever, as the impacts of climate change continue to ravage nearly every corner