GlobalPost.com launches today
Posted by Leah McBride Mensching on January 12, 2009 at 6:43 PM
Boston Globe alum Charles Sennott's GlobalPost.com, a Web start-up offering foreign news coverage, launched Monday, the Associated Press reported.
Sennott started the ad-supported free Web site to offer foreign coverage to newspapers having to close outlying bureaux. Journalists working for GlobalPost have previously worked for U.S. news outlets such as the Washington Post, Associated Press and CNN.
Sennott started the ad-supported free Web site to offer foreign coverage to newspapers having to close outlying bureaux. Journalists working for GlobalPost have previously worked for U.S. news outlets such as the Washington Post, Associated Press and CNN.
"We cannot cover every plane crash or be there for every press conference," Sennott said, according to the AP article posted by the Cornwall Standard-Freeholder. "What we can do is have a network of talented writers who live in the places they write and who deliver stories that are comparable to a metro newspaper's columnist, stories that connect the dots, that give you a sense of a place in a relatively short space."
GlobalPost will offer news from almost 50 countries, especially from places Senott said he believes are not covered enough by U.S. media, such as Indonesia and Brazil, the AP reported.
The site's journalists are receiving equity stakes in Global News Enterprises, which is privately held. After five years, the shares will be vested, and journalists will likely hold half the stake not held by the original 14 investors in the company, which raised US$8.2 million, and include Benjamin Taylor, the Boston Globe's former publisher, and Paul Sagan, CEO of Massachusetts-based Akamai Technologies Inc., according to the AP.
GlobalPost will offer news from almost 50 countries, especially from places Senott said he believes are not covered enough by U.S. media, such as Indonesia and Brazil, the AP reported.
The site's journalists are receiving equity stakes in Global News Enterprises, which is privately held. After five years, the shares will be vested, and journalists will likely hold half the stake not held by the original 14 investors in the company, which raised US$8.2 million, and include Benjamin Taylor, the Boston Globe's former publisher, and Paul Sagan, CEO of Massachusetts-based Akamai Technologies Inc., according to the AP.
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