Charles Sennott Email & Phone Number

Charles Sennott is a Founding CEO and Chairman at GroundTruth Media Partners based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, North America. Charles Sennott is the founder of The GroundTruth Project, and is currently focusing on his own reporting and thought leadership through his GroundTruth newsletter on Substack. Sennott is an award-winning correspondent, best-selling author, and editor with 30 years of experience in international, national, and local journalism. A leading social entrepreneur in new media, Sennott launched GroundTruth in 2012 and in 2014 the organization was officially recognized as a 501c3 non-profit organization with a mission of inspiring and supporting a new generation of journalists to do on-the-ground reporting through reporting fellowships that focused on team reporting projects which were amplified through partners such as PBS FRONTLINE, the Atlantic and PRX The World. In 2017, Sennott wanted to recognize the deep need for more reporting in under-covered corners of America and joined forces with Steve Waldman to launch the non-profit organization's local reporting initiative, Report for America. In 2021, he worked with co-founder Kevin Grant to create Report for the World. Both of these flagship programs share the mission of serving local communities by matching local newsrooms with talented emerging journalists to report on under-covered issues across America and around the globe. Reporting on the front lines of wars and insurgencies in at least 20 countries, including the post-9/11 conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq and the 2011 Arab Spring, Sennott began his career in local news covering cops, courts, and municipal government. Sennott’s deep experience in reporting led him to dedicate himself to supporting and training the next generation of journalists to tell the most important stories of our time. Sennott is also the co-founder of GlobalPost, an acclaimed international news website. Previously, Sennott worked for many years as a reporter at the New York Daily News and then the Boston Globe, where he became Bureau Chief for the Middle East and Europe, and a leader of the paper's international coverage from 1997 to 2005. Sennott has also served as a correspondent for PBS FRONTLINE and the PBS NewsHour. He has contributed news analysis to the BBC, CNN, NPR, MSNBC and others. He is a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. In 2016, Sennott was accepted into the DRK portfolio of leading social entrepreneurs who can make a difference. In 2024, Sennott was honored to receive the World Press Freedom Award from the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation.