Global Post is a USA website covering National News.
GlobalPost is an online source of international news coverage. GlobalPost correspondents live in countries around the world in order to give readers the local perspective on events.
The service is supported by online advertising, content syndication and memberships. Members get premium content and can also suggest story ideas. Each week, the top ideas are posted and members vote on which story they want GlobalPost to cover.
GlobalPost was launched in January 2009. WGBH Boston acquired the service from founder Philip S. Balboni in 2015. It is operated by Public Radio Exchange (PRX), which in 2018 merged with Public Radio International (PRI).
This website is owned by WGBH Educational Foundation.
Mailing address: The Pilot House, Lewis Wharf, Boston, MA 02110
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GlobalPost Journalist Located in Libya
-- Libyan officials confirm James Foley and 3 foreign journalists are in government hands, the online news service reported on April 8, 2011:
"Libyan officials confirm they have GlobalPost freelance contributor James Foley and three other foreign journalists in their custody.
The four journalists are expected to be taken to Tripoli and then released, according to several sources in...
GlobalPost Takes on World News Coverage Challenge as U.S. Newspapers Trim Bureaus
-- The Washington Post reported on March 25, 2010:
"The morning after a powerful earthquake struck Chile, "Face the Nation" was frantically trying to find a journalist in the suddenly ravaged country.
With phone lines jammed and major news outlets caught flat-footed, CBS tracked down Pascale Bonnefoy, a reporter for the online news service GlobalPost. "It was terrifying," she says, recounting the devastation to Bob Schieffer...
A Profile of Mt. Everest's "Other Guy," Tenzing Norgay
-- Norgay was profiled by Jason Overdorf of GlobalPost on November 1, 2009:
"'Tenzing Norgay is the face, and he's the real person who's responsible for giving recognition to the people and the mountains that we have here,' said Sanjay Thami, president of the Guide and Porters Association of Maneybhanjang, a local trekking hub. 'He is a hero, who was the first man to step on the highest peak in the...
The Gobal Post Offers Ray of Hope to Troubled Newspaper Business
-- Writing in the New York Review of Books (Volume 56, Number 14, September 24, 2009), Michael Massing looks at the troubles of the newspaper business and the hope of new models like Global Post:
"Of all the for-profit experiments out there, the most intriguing, perhaps, is Global Post. Launched in January with close to $10 million in start-up funds from private investors, this site already has seventy-four...
Online news service GlobalPost will generate $1 million in revenue in 2009
-- The Nieman Journalism Lab reported on October 28, 2009:
"Phil Balboni, chief executive of GlobalPost, said the company is on pace to generate $1 million in revenue this year and expects $3 million in revenue next year, which would reduce their operating loss by 50 percent. (He didn't say so explicitly, but you might deduce from those numbers that GlobalPost's annual expenses are $5 million.) The goal is to achieve...
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