GroundTruth

This is another great day for GlobalPost getting out the word about who we are. We had a story promoted on the frontpage of the Wall Street Journal that broke news about our syndication partnership with the Daily News, New York’s hometown newspaper. The Daily News is my alma mater and where I learned my lessons on street reporting. It’s been said that any good reporter would make a great foreign correspondent. And I believe that’s true. And the Daily News has great cop reporters, and it knows how to tell a story. Some of the best writing in journalism comes in the Daily News which serves up GroundTruth on New York City every day. We are very proud to have them as our first, big syndication partner.

I was invited for a guest appearance today on the Morning Joe on MSNBC. They are a great crowd and I can see why our Managing Editor for the Web, Barbara Martinez, is addicted to Joe Scarborough’s daily show. It’s a lot of fun. I have been on a fair number of talk shows, and not every body out there is exactly well informed or hip or gets it. Everyone at the Morning Joe — Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist, Pat Buchanan and my old buddy Mike Barnicle — gets it. As proof, they chose two brilliant video clips from our field correspondents Greg Warner in Afghanistan singing “Ring of Fire” and Josh Chin cruising the streets of China to find out what people think of America. Before I came on, I listened in the green room to an excellent discussion on the Middle East with Jordan’s Queen Noor, the wife of the late King Hussein, and Council on Foreign Relations’ Richard Haass. It’s great to hear a show that combines intelligent insights with a sense of humanity and a sense of humor. And that makes them an immediate ally of GlobalPost.