Mark joined the Monitor in 1996 and has since written from Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area, the Pentagon, and India. In addition to reporting from Pakistan and Afghanistan during his time in South Asia, Mark has also written on issues of sports and science. He has covered seven Olympic Games and attended events at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, including the landing of the Mars rover Opportunity. After returning to Boston in 2009, Mark served as both deputy national news editor and national news editor before serving as editor from 2017 to 2025.
Stories by Mark Sappenfield
- ‘Now, it’s getting huge.’ How the NFL is making (lots of) fans overseas.
- Why India may be the winner from Trump’s H-1B price hike
- From the Editors Seeing both sides with honesty and clarity
- Cover Story Inside Europe’s most dramatic migration experiment
- Will Europe’s rising defense budgets come at the cost of welfare?
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