Charles Sennott

Notable work and positions

The GroundTruth Project (now Report Local) - founder and editor-in-chief
Report for America / Report for the World - co-founder
GlobalPost - co-founder
Boston Globe - former Middle East and Europe Bureau Chief
New York Daily News - former reporter

Biography

Charles M. Sennott is the founder of The GroundTruth Project, the nonprofit journalism organization now known as Report Local, and of its flagship service programs, Report for America and Report for the World. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, Sennott began his career covering cops, courts and municipal government in local news before working as a reporter at the New York Daily News, where he covered the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993. He then joined the Boston Globe, where he served as Middle East Bureau Chief in Jerusalem and later Europe Bureau Chief in London, leading the paper's international coverage from 1997 to 2005 and reporting from the front lines of wars and insurgencies in at least 20 countries, including post-9/11 Afghanistan and Iraq and the 2011 Arab Spring. In 2009 he co-founded GlobalPost, an international news website later folded into GBH and PRX's The World. He launched The GroundTruth Project in 2012 to train and support the next generation of journalists, and in 2017 co-founded Report for America with Steve Waldman; in 2021 he co-founded the international sister program Report for the World with Kevin Grant. Sennott received the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation's World Press Freedom Award in 2024.

Career highlights

• Co-founding GlobalPost 2009 · Launched an international news website later integrated into GBH and PRX's The World.
• Founding The GroundTruth Project 2012 · Established the nonprofit journalism organization that became the home of Report for America and Report for the World.
• Co-founding Report for America 2017 · With Steve Waldman, launched the national service program placing journalists in local newsrooms.