A website's for-profit approach to world news

27 March 2009 | 9:39 - By Stefano Boscutti

Overseas reporters have been a casualty of budget-chopping news organizations, leaving an opening for the online start-up GlobalPost.

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But at a time when many news executives are exploring nonprofit business models to keep specialized reporting flowing, GlobalPost, is intended to be a moneymaking venture.  With 65 correspondents worldwide - drawn from a surfeit of experienced reporters eager to continue working in their specialties even as potential employers disappear - GlobalPost has begun offering a mix of news and features that only a handful of other news organizations can rival. "Worldfocus" weeknight newscast features reports from GlobalPost correspondents, who carry inexpensive Flip digital video cameras when in the field.  Light, tight, fast journalism for world stories on the go.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/23/business/media/23global.html
http://www.globalpost.com/

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New New Media looks at how our mediascape is exploding to bits. How the latest technology and the internet are changing the way we live, work and play. How the latest media is shaping us all.

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