Monitor Managing Editor and Assistant Managing Editor comment on their jobs, editorial choices, and reader response.
Marshall ingwerson: It's an opinion-heavy world now, and many people see the media almost entirely through the lens of opinion. So their first question when they read a Monitor story might be, "Which side is this paper on?"
That is not how we think. At our best, we're driven by a constructive curiosity about the world and how it works, and a clear-eyed, unsentimental compssion for the impact of news on actual people. The Monitor's distinction is in taking readers toward deeper, clearer concepts driving the news. We're interested in ideas, in how people think, in the models of thought behind news trends. So we regard shifts in social culture—the reconceptualizing of the family in China, for example—as important news developments.
