Scott Armstrong is a senior editor at The Christian Science Monitor in Boston. He is currently the cover story editor for the paper’s weekly magazine, which involves conceptualizing, assigning, and editing 3,500-word narratives on topics ranging from foreign affairs to physics. Before that he was a backstory editor, producing feature stories with an emphasis on storytelling. He was national news editor for 11 years and Los Angeles bureau chief for 10 years. He has been a technology writer, New England news reporter, and staff editor on the foreign desk.