BOSTON, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- The U.S. newspaper The Christian Science Monitor has announced it will switch from print content to online-only beginning in April 2009.
The newspaper, a non-profit financed by the First Church of Christ, Scientist with headquarters in Boston, announced Tuesday that its weekday edition will be abandoned after 100 years of printing in favor of online-only news content, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
John Yemma, The Monitor's editor, said the move is a cost-cutting measure aimed at allowing the organization to retain its eight foreign bureaus without raising costs.
"We have the luxury -- the opportunity -- of making a leap that most newspapers will have to make in the next five years," Yemma said.
Circulation of The Christian Science Monitor was last reported at 52,000, far below its peak of more than 220,000 in 1970, the Times said.
