Jill Carroll

Jill Carroll is a staff writer for the Christian Science Monitor. From October 2003 through May 2004, Ms. Carroll lived in Iraq freelancing for various publications and covering daily news for Ansa, an Italian newswire. She returned to Baghdad in January 2005 and began working for the Christian Science Monitor. Before obtaining her current position, Ms. Carroll worked for the States News Service, Wall Street Journal, and Jordan Times covering various topics including the FCC, higher education, health, sports, and business. Ms. Carroll graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a B.A. in journalism in 1999. Her research project at the Shorenstein was an analysis of the decline of foreign bureaus in the wake of changes in the newspaper industry.