GlobalPost aims to provide quality international news
Juliane Casey
Issue date: 10/29/09 Section: Features
As society becomes more globalized, some world citizens remark that Americans have little outward perspective and fail to grasp the nuances of world politics. That is all about to change.
GlobalPost (www.globalpost.com) is an up-and-coming news site dedicated to informing readers with a "depth, breadth and quality of original international reporting that has been steadily diminished in too many American newspapers and television networks," according to its mission statement. The Web site is the brainchild of Philip S. Balboni, who founded and acted as president of the New England Cable News, the nation's largest regional news network.
The media world has undergone some significant changes in the past few decades. As the Internet transforms the way we view news, U.S. news organizations struggling to stay afloat have downsized by first closing foreign news bureaus.
GlobalPost is online-only, and is made up of more than 70 American correspondents located in 50 different countries. The staff is entirely freelance, but because GlobalPost is for-profit, writers receive monetary compensation for every article they deliver, says Rick Byrne, GlobalPost communications and marketing director. Student journalists studying abroad are not paid for their contributions
Smith Junior Elizabeth Tuttle recently landed a job with GlobalPost as a study abroad correspondent. Tuttle is studying in Brazil, where she has written about her first impressions of the culture, specifically in terms of gender. Her first article for the news site is on the subject of the ubiquitous "fio dental" (dental floss bikini) in her temporary home.
"From the beginning, it was a priority to include students because students are more informed than ever before," said Kathleen Struck, study abroad coordinator for GlobalPost.
Student writers and older correspondents are treated more or less the same, with a few minor differences. All of the students are Americans studying abroad in places like Tibet and Nepal as well as in traditional study abroad locations like France and Spain. Whereas adult correspondents have no specific guidelines for their writing, students write from a more personal perspective.
GlobalPost (www.globalpost.com) is an up-and-coming news site dedicated to informing readers with a "depth, breadth and quality of original international reporting that has been steadily diminished in too many American newspapers and television networks," according to its mission statement. The Web site is the brainchild of Philip S. Balboni, who founded and acted as president of the New England Cable News, the nation's largest regional news network.
The media world has undergone some significant changes in the past few decades. As the Internet transforms the way we view news, U.S. news organizations struggling to stay afloat have downsized by first closing foreign news bureaus.
GlobalPost is online-only, and is made up of more than 70 American correspondents located in 50 different countries. The staff is entirely freelance, but because GlobalPost is for-profit, writers receive monetary compensation for every article they deliver, says Rick Byrne, GlobalPost communications and marketing director. Student journalists studying abroad are not paid for their contributions
Smith Junior Elizabeth Tuttle recently landed a job with GlobalPost as a study abroad correspondent. Tuttle is studying in Brazil, where she has written about her first impressions of the culture, specifically in terms of gender. Her first article for the news site is on the subject of the ubiquitous "fio dental" (dental floss bikini) in her temporary home.
"From the beginning, it was a priority to include students because students are more informed than ever before," said Kathleen Struck, study abroad coordinator for GlobalPost.
Student writers and older correspondents are treated more or less the same, with a few minor differences. All of the students are Americans studying abroad in places like Tibet and Nepal as well as in traditional study abroad locations like France and Spain. Whereas adult correspondents have no specific guidelines for their writing, students write from a more personal perspective.
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