BOSTON -- Katherine W. Fanning, editor of the Anchorage, Alaska, Daily News, was named editor of the Christian Science Monitor Wednesday, replacing Earl W. Foell, who was named the newspaper's editor-in-chief.
Mrs. Fanning was editor and publisher of the Anchorage paper when it won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for meritorious service for a series of arti:les on the growth of the state's Teamsters Union.
Monitor spokesmen said the move was made to allow Foell, editor since 1979, to represent the newspaper 'on the world scene' and to write a column.
The changes are effective June 1.
'We are eager to have Earl set a pace for the Monitor staff in terms of the paper's outreach to mankind, in terms of the unique service the Monitor was founded to provide,' said Hal M. Friesen, a member of the Christian Science board of directors, which oversees the Monitor's editorial responsibilities.
Of Mrs. Fanning's appointment, Freisen said, 'Our aim is to broaden and strengthen the course of this important newspaper in the spirit of its founding mandate: 'to injure no man but to bless all mankind.''
A member of the board of directors of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Mrs. Fanning is a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board and the 1979 recipient of the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award of Colby College in Maine. She was the second woman to win the Lovejoy Award in its 31-year history of honoring 'journalistic achievement.'
Foell has won numerous journalism awards and once covered the United Nations for the Monitor.
