Earlier this week, I sat down with Dave Davies, senior writer for the Philadelphia Daily News, on NPR's Fresh Air. We spoke about GlobalPost's special report, "Life, Death and the Taliban" and my recent travels to AfPak for the series. You ...Read More
KABUL – The city was in a full clamp down for the big gathering as heavily armed convoys shuttled the president, diplomats and military brass to the event. Everyone who is anyone in Kabul was gathering for the ceremony at a ...Read More
KABUL – Enter the steel gates that lead to the courtyard and well-tended gardens of a faded, but still elegant manse where Nancy Hatch Dupree greets us on the steps. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="320" caption="Photography by: Seamus Murphy"][/caption] For a moment, you ...Read More
As a foreign correspondent, I covered the Holy Land for many years. But then I came back to Boston to the true Promised Land: Fenway Park. And yesterday, opening day for the Red Sox, represents a kind of religious holiday ...Read More
The New York Times put GlobalPost on the map today. The article by Elizabeth Jensen in the business section is titled "A Web Site's For-Profit approach to World News." The article quotes one analyst as saying GlobalPost is "pretty ...Read More
Reporters Without Borders is an important international press freedom organization and they have written a letter to President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton. It's an important read for those who care about human rights and the freedom of the ...Read More
So our correspondents all over the world are covering war, calamity, the global economic crisis, climate change and, hey, it can get you down. But starting tonight and through tomorrow you can find love stories from around the world at ...Read More
By C.M. Sennott Today's exclusive story is bold and insightful GroundTruth. Our correspondent in Pakistan, Shahan Mufti, has broken a news story that is a must read. Mufti knows Peshawar, Pakistan well. He's been in and out of there and has ...Read More
Four-star General David Petraeus, the chief of U.S. Central Command, performed the coin toss before kickoff at the Super Bowl. And there couldn't have been a more perfect vignette for the theme of our Sports columnist Mark Starr's excellent piece ...Read More
This is GroundTruth. This is what it is all about. GlobalPost's Egypt correspondent, Theo May, finally landed inside Gaza. Using his Blackberry to file because he couldn't get any internet connection through his laptop, he has just filed a riveting ...Read More
GroundTruth is written by Charles Sennott, the Executive Editor and co-founder of GlobalPost. The blog is a way for GlobalPost to let you know what our correspondents all over the world are covering every day. It is a place where Sennott highlights the best work in the field by a stellar team of correspondents . 