Christian Monterrosa joins SciLine to lead newsroom outreach
Christian Monterrosa has joined the staff of SciLine as engagement manager. He’ll help the organization extend the reach of its free services to journalists in local newsrooms across the country and expand SciLine’s work with Spanish-language media and independent content creators.
Founded in 2017, SciLine is a philanthropically supported nonprofit that connects journalists with expert sources through a unique on-deadline matching service, hosts media briefings with scientists on timely news topics, and, through training programs and timely tip sheets and toolkits, helps journalists understand how to access, understand, and incorporate evidence-based information into their reporting. SciLine also helps scientists talk publicly about their research and expertise.
Christian Monterrosa
Before joining SciLine, Monterrosa served as interim membership director at Tiny News Collective, an organization that supports small journalism startups; as portfolio manager at The Pivot Fund, a nonprofit that funds and supports hyperlocal news organizations led by and serving people of color; and as community manager at LION, an organization that supports local independent online news organizations across the country.
Monterrosa is also an award-winning photographer with a focus on climate and migration whose coverage of news such as the flooding in western North Carolina has appeared in the New York Times and other notable news outlets. He started his journalism career as a local government reporter at the Palisidian-Post in Pacific Palisades, California.
“Amid the chaotic news cycle of 2025 and rampant misinformation, there’s an urgent need among local journalists right now for the kind of evidence-based resources and expertise that SciLine provides. Christian’s experience working with a diverse group of small, local newsrooms across the country is perfectly suited to this role,” said SciLine Director Matt DeRienzo. “We’re excited to welcome him to the team.”
“I am thrilled to be joining SciLine’s team and to support journalists in bringing clear, trustworthy science into the stories that shape people’s daily lives,” Monterrosa said. “I look forward to expanding that reach to even more communities and newsrooms nationwide.”
Monterrosa is based in New York. He can be reached at cmonterrosa@aaas.org.
SciLine is a philanthropically supported nonprofit that helps journalists access, understand and incorporate more scientific evidence and expertise in their work and helps scientists more effectively communicate with the media about their research.
SciLine is based at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which was founded in 1848. AAAS is the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society and publisher of the journal Science. SciLine is supported by a mix of individual donors and foundation funders, including the Quadrivium Foundation, Eucalyptus Foundation, MAC3 Impact Philanthropies, Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Walton Family Foundation, Knight Foundation, Simons Foundation, Lyda Hill Foundation, and New Venture Fund.