Email: Amelia Newcomb
Amelia Newcomb is a senior editor of The Christian Science Monitor . She served as The Monitor 's managing editor from 2017-March 2025. Prior to that, she was the Monitor's international news editor, overseeing four staff bureaus and numerous contributors around the globe. She started her career at The Monitor , serving as a features reporter and editor and as an editor on the National news desk. Newcomb was also a foreign affairs correspondent for Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun in Washington. After rejoining the Monitor in 1995, she held positions as editor of The Monitor 's award-winning former education section and its Ideas section, and wrote on a wide variety of education issues. She has also reported periodically from China and Japan. She was a 2008 recipient of an International Report Fellowship for in-depth reporting on Japan, and a 2013 Sulzberger Fellow at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. A graduate of Harvard University in East Asian Studies, she holds a master's degree in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.