GlobalPost.com

[Skip Zilla]

GlobalPost.com is a start-up organization attempting to fill the lack of first-hand, first-class, international reporting in American news media in the digital age. Here are two paragraphs excerpted from GlobalPost's mission statement:

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.

GlobalPost is a direct response to these forces. Our mission is to provide Americans, and all English-language readers around the world, with a depth, breadth and quality of original international reporting that has been steadily diminished in too many American newspapers and television networks. GlobalPost is at the leading edge of what we hope and believe will become a new flowering of journalism in the digital age, built around new models of financial support.

Perhaps students can model their digital journalism projects on what GlobalPost.com attempts to do. The re-emphasis on original reporting is propitious for actually getting the news.

[Connie Weber]

Yes, fascinating. Got it on del.icio.us and will keep returning to the site. Skip, thank you for the way you keep us up to date with the best of the best!

[Ian Carmichael]

Looks very welcome indeed. I love the "Explore" map; to pick out a country report. Looks like a far wider take on the world than many/most, and with a map gateway, news is flattened - I don't have to read through editors' senses of importance, but can go direct to Sudan, Timor, Kiribati. (Obviously, as with anything, what's not there is not there! but first impressions are excellent.)

[Ian Carmichael]

Thanks, Skip - I'll hook in!