Award-Winning Journalist, Entrepreneur and Mentor; Founder of The GroundTruth Project

Boston, MA, USA
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Charlie Sennott Biography

Charles Sennott is an award-winning correspondent, bestselling author, documentary producer and editor with 40 years of experience in international, national and local journalism.

Sennott is the founder of The GroundTruth Project; under his leadership, The GroundTruth Project has been widely recognized for its excellence, including DuPont, Emmy, Edward R. Murrow Awards and The World Press Photo Award. Sennott is also the co-founder of GlobalPost, an acclaimed international news website that launched in 2009 and was later acquired by GBH Public Media - the largest producer of PBS national programming. In 2017, Sennott co-founded Report For America, dedicated to supporting and training the next generation of journalists to tell the most important stories of our time.

Sennott currently runs his new editorial spinoff, GroundTruth Media, dedicated to field reporting and thought leadership, and which serves as an incubator for new ideas in journalism, including expert analysis on the threat and promises of AI on journalistic work.

Sennott began his career in local news covering cops, courts and municipal government. He has reported on the front lines of wars and insurgencies in at least 25 countries, including the post 9-11 conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq and the 2011 Arab Spring.

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 then for Europe, and a leader of the paper's international coverage from 1997 to 2005. Sennott has also served as a correspondent for "PBS FRONTLINE," the "PBS NewsHour" and "PRX The World." He has contributed news analysis to the BBC, CNN, NPR, MSNBC, GBH’s Boston Public Radio, and others.

Sennott is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (BA 1984 History), Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism (MS 1986), and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University (2006.) In 2016, Sennott was accepted into the DRK portfolio of leading social entrepreneurs who can make a difference and in 2017, completed the Sulzberger Executive Training Program at Columbia University. In 2024, Sennott received the World Press Freedom Award from the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation.

Sennott was a Visiting Scholar at Boston College’s Institute for Liberal Arts, where he taught from 2019 through 2024 a seminar titled “Truth: A Short History.” Currently, he is a Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Communication, Leadership and Policy, focusing his research on what he calls “a global crisis in local news that has become a crisis for democracy.”

Sennott serves on the board of directors of Ukraine’s leading news organization, Ukrainska Pravda, and on the board of advisors for the Overseas Press Club Foundation and the International Press Institute's North American Committee.

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Charlie Sennott Speaking Topics

  • Ground Truth: Reporting in a Post-Truth Era

    The Large Language Models that serve the AI platforms are built upon a flow of discernible facts that are the work of daily journalism. In this talk, Charlie Sennott will introduce attendees to ‘ground truth’ in journalism

    • the act of being there on the ground, to serve as a witness and to write the narratives that seek truth. This talk will inspire the attendees to reflect on what can be done to restore ‘truth’ and to empower truth tellers

    • because AI will not function with the accuracy and reliability it needs to deliver without on-the-ground reporters doing their jobs to find the news, and to separate fact from hallucination.

    Attendees will also benefit from a rare, longitudinal perspective on the news media landscape, that only veteran industry professionals like Charles can offer. Having navigated the industry’s tectonic shifts for over 40 years, he will share lessons from the companies he has founded that trace across the evolution from traditional print journalism, to the digital revolution, and now to the frontiers of AI-driven information. This talk will connect these industry shifts, showing how the core instincts of journalism, and ground truth reporting can play the most essential role in how the industry will rise to meet the challenges and opportunities of AI.

Charlie Sennott Videos

Charlie Sennott - GBH News

Charlie Sennott - GBH News

Why history matters when sorting through information about the Israel-Hamas war.

Charlie Sennott - International Press Institute

Charlie Sennott - International Press Institute

Journalism and democracy: Dean Baquet in conversation with Charlie Sennott.

Charles M. Sennott - Carnegie Council

Charles M. Sennott - Carnegie Council

Truth, Polarization, & the American Media

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