On October 1, 1970, R. John Hughes was appointed by The Christian Science Board of Directors to succeed DeWitt John as Editor of The Christian Science Monitor. Earlier in the year, Mr. Hughes had been made Managing Editor.
To his new position Mr. Hughes brings a broad background in international news. For six years he was the Monitor's Africa correspondent and later spent another six years as Far Eastern correspondent based in Hong Kong.
During this latter period Mr. Hughes won the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Indonesian crisis of 1966. He was recipient in 1961 of a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University and is the author of two books: The New Face of Africa (1961) and Indonesian Upheaval (1967).
A native of Wales, Mr. Hughes spent eight years with newspapers and news agencies in London and South Africa before joining the Monitor staff in 1954. A devoted Christian Scientist, he joined The Mother Church in 1947 and received Primary class instruction in 1960. More recently he has been active in First Church of Christ, Scientist, Hong Kong.
