New American News Org.

Posted by Nicole Collins on
Thursday, February 5th, 2009 at 11:26 am

Oldie News Vets Hold to Journalistic Principles but Embrace Newer Practices

Only on-site gathering, only online reporting.

• They will not cover U.S. stories.
• They will not focus on breaking news.

A new American internet news organization equipped some 70 international correspondents with Flip video cameras to embark “on a bold journey to redefine international news for the digital age.”

“New technology allows us to make newsgathering a more transparent process.”

Global Post (Boston, Conn.) covers only international stories—the exception is US Foreign Policy—with on-the-ground reporters stationed around the world.

And they advocate social media, although public participation may relate directly to how transparent the typically controlled traditionalists can become.

“We invite you to be part of that community and to provide feedback on our coverage and actively engage in the site as a participant.” The news is mostly free to the public online.

Founded by news veterans Philip S. Balboni and Charles M. Sennott, GP was launched Jan. 12. The news organization is for-profit, earning from advertising, syndication, and its membership feature dubbed Passport—discounted to students—that serves exclusive “inner circle” content.

We, the Founders of GlobalPost, are also acutely aware of the fact that quality journalism in America is threatened more profoundly today than at any time in our history from an unprecedented combination of forces: the transformational power of technology and the internet, the dramatic erosion in the economic underpinnings of the traditional media, and a steady migration of the most devoted consumers of news as well as younger people to new content platforms, most importantly the web.

-Balboni & Sennott