Sean Scott is the incoming religion, politics and society reporter for The Maine Monitor. Before joining The Monitor staff, Scott served as the founding editor for the Oxford Free Press, a nonprofit print and digital newsroom which launched in Ohio in June 2024. He began his journalism career at The Miami Student, Miami University’s student newspaper, while studying journalism and urban and regional planning. He wrote about everything from local elections to faculty unionization and served as editor-in-chief in his senior year. His work for The Student and the Free Press has earned local, statewide and regional awards, as well as a national award for campus reporting. While in college, Scott also held internships with The Cincinnati Enquirer and the Journal-News in Hamilton, Ohio. Scott spends much of his free time with his two cats, Ghost and Nymeria.
Beat: Religion, politics, & society in Maine
Across Maine, religious congregations are recentering communities around their places of worship. This is bringing new strengths to communities but also new tensions, as some religious communities mobilize to influence politics and society in Maine. This beat would focus on exploring religious communities in Maine, seeking to understand how they are changing, the impacts they are having on state and local politics and how they are engaging with religious entities at the national level.