Senior Congressional Correspondent, Monitor - Washington, DC

Senior Congressional Correspondent, The Christian Science Monitor - Washington, DC

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The Christian Science Monitor

Requisition Number
: SENIO
001566

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• Posted:
  December 18, 2025
• Full-Time

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DC - CS Monitor Bureau
District of Columbia, USA

Department: The Christian Science Monitor - Washington, DC

The Senior Congressional Correspondent uses a home base on Capitol Hill to anchor a beat that delves into governing ideals and how they are playing out in politics and policy. The writer will take the lead in Monitor coverage of Congress, and is also encouraged to pursue some additional government and politics stories as opportunities allow. The correspondent’s call to action is to think and act strategically, resisting the forces that would suck the writer into granular details and a pack mentality.

The writer must be relentlessly committed to discerning what matters most for Monitor readers, identifying deeper patterns behind events, and being ready to challenge accepted narratives about how lawmakers and lawmaking operate.

The Senior Congressional Correspondent approaches their beat with curiosity and open‑mindedness and a willingness to set aside personal bias or prevailing consensus, and treats all points of view with diligent inquiry and respect. They prize original reporting and build stories that, for our audience, promote calm over fear and insight over assumption. A Monitor journalist depicts the subject of the story fairly and without embellishment, and eschews advocacy.

The Monitor equips the reader to reach his or her own well‑reasoned conclusions.

The Senior Congressional Correspondent strives to uphold The Christian Science Monitor’s founding mission “to spread undivided the Science that operates unspent,” and its object “to injure no man but to bless all mankind.” That includes hewing to our five operational guidelines:

• Bring a healing, purifying thought to many homes. We counteract cynicism about news and humanity by upholding a higher standard of both.
• Get above the fray. Because we’re owned by a church, we’re free from corporate and political interests.
• Cover the day’s vital global news. We provide a trustworthy and concise compilation for our thoughtful, busy readers.
• Investigate ideals and endeavors, not just events. We keep abreast of the times by recognizing key currents of thought and their impact.
• Be clean, family‑friendly, and non‑sensational. We are “a newspaper for the home.”

The Senior Congressional Correspondent embraces our newsroom’s three culture pillars:

• We’re scrappy. We seek creative solutions. We’re hungry and nimble. We experiment and streamline.
• We’re rigorous. We embrace others challenging our ideas and our writing. We strive for editorial excellence, and we help each other continually improve. We know that feedback is a gift.
• We have unwavering fidelity to our mission. We make our founding mission the basis for every decision and initiative.

Editorial capabilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Demonstrates strong reporting instincts and discernment, persistence, and professionalism in getting to the most valuable sources
• Shows a mastery of both deadline writing and in‑depth pieces, including features
• Practices editorial rigor resulting in strong story angles and incisive, energetic writing
• Embraces a culture of feedback
• Understands, respects, and consistently applies Monitor style and language sensitivities.
• Engages collaboratively with editors and other writers
• Travels as required
• Communicates effectively with editors and, when needed, senior management
• Has a keen understanding of how democratic institutions work and relate to each other within the constitutional structure
• Complies with Monitor Ethics Policy. This includes not taking any public position on any political or public‑issue campaign, including through social media posts, participation in protests, or donations to political candidates or issues.

Reporting Relationships
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Supervisor:
Politics Editor
Regular Contacts:
National News Editor, other National desk editors, other National…