Christa Case Bryant is the editor of The Christian Science Monitor, and is the second woman to hold the position since the paper’s founding in 1908. She brings a combination of national and international reporting experience gained over two decades since she started as an intern at the paper.
As senior Congressional correspondent, Christa won the National Press Foundation’s 2022 Everett McKinley Dirksen award for distinguished reporting on Congress and the 2023 Sigma Delta Chi award for Washington Correspondence. She previously served as the Monitor’s Heartland correspondent, Politics editor, Jerusalem bureau chief, Middle East editor, and Europe editor.
Ms. Bryant was a 2015-16 Nieman journalism fellow at Harvard and holds an M.A. in international relations from The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University. She graduated with a B.A. from Principia College, where she focused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a major in global perspectives and a minor in religion. She also attended the Middlebury School of Hebrew and studied spoken Arabic in Jerusalem.
After spending many years as a cross-country ski racer on the national and international level, Ms. Bryant has a special interest in all things Olympian. She covered the Winter Olympics in 2010 and 2018.
Stories by Christa Case Bryant
- The Monitor moves forward
- Cathy McMorris Rodgers Q&A: How faith shaped her path in Congress
- Election Day 2024: Why both sides feel this is a tipping point for America
- The Explainer Big development in Jan. 6 case against Trump. Why now?
- What the US can do to deter a wider war in the Middle East
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