Why We Wrote This
Hosted by Clay Collins · The Christian Science Monitor
5.0from 89 ratings
- 186
- Episodes
- 6
- Transcribed
- 89
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 5M
- YouTube views
About Why We Wrote This
Who reports the news? People. And at The Christian Science Monitor, we believe that it’s our job to report each story with a sense of shared humanity. Through conversations with our reporters and editors, we explain the qualities behind our reporting that affect how we approach the news. Behind today’s headlines we find respect, resilience, dignity, agency, and hope. “Why We Wrote This” shows how. The Monitor is an award-winning, nonpartisan news organization with bureaus around the globe. Visit CSMonitor.com/whywewrotethis to learn more.
- Publisher
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 20 Oct 2020
- Latest episode
- 14 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
6 of 186 episodes have a transcript.
14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
40 Years of Bearing Witness
14 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Three Days That Shook the World
22 May 2026TRANSCRIPT
He Said, Xi Said
Inside a recent episode
40 Years of Bearing Witness
Published 14 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] You know, in a lot of ways, it's really part of the whole search for dignity, which is a significant part of the human experience and the search for progress, both of which you see in that story. Where else have you seen that kind of thing at work? Well, you can find the search for dignity and the search to make hope real almost anywhere, to be honest. I mean, I remember I went to Agadez in Niger on the edge of the Sahara Desert, where I came across scores and scores of young men from all over Africa who had gathered there to make a, frankly, very daunting journey across the Sahara. and then across the southern Libyan desert in their hopes of reaching Europe and making a proper life for themselves. […]
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- YouTube views
- 4,928,771
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 80 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 9 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 52 / 100
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- Quality
- 33
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 85
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