Tuesday, March 31, 2009

globalpost.com

I've recently been checking-out globalpost.com for world news.

It seems to be trying not to over-extend itself while offering authentic reporting from select international locations; like a section on Costa Rica.

This, from their 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."

I am trying to work it into my "balancing" routine; distilling meaning from the divergent sources that I read.

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