The battle for Kandahar is the end game in Afghanistan. With General David Petraeus taking command on July 4, the offensive is slowly, grinding to a start as the surge of 30,000 additional troops hits the ground in Afghanistan and the ...Read More
So, first of all apologies for abandoning my post here for so long. Not cool. But these are incredibly busy -- and good -- days at GlobalPost. Lots going on. And every day we are busy editing the work of ...Read More
I was looking back at the last week of coverage and wanted to pause to highlight two recent pieces where GlobalPost correspondents dug deep into their beats, using enterprising reporting and digging and good-old fashioned shoe leather reporting. Bogotá-based correspondent Nadja ...Read More
Rose Devine was the eyes and ears and the heart and soul of The Boston Globe. As the operator at the switchboard in the newsroom for more than 20 years, Rose knew GroundTruth and she loved it. She loved everything about ...Read More
Take a journey on the Colorado River with photographer Brian L. Frank and see the "dust bowl era" images of life along its banks. "Death of the Colorado" is a powerful statement and part of our "Full Frame" ...Read More
NEW YORK — GlobalPost is proud to announce that our coverage of the global economic crisis has won four Best in Business awards given by The Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW). In the Enterprise category we won for ...Read More
One year ago to the day, we launched GlobalPost and it has been a helluva good year. We've built an amazing team of correspondents, columnists and editors and a growing community of visitors to the site. I'd like to thank ...Read More
GlobalPost invites you to listen to "This Year with Global Post," a special radio report in partnership with WGBH-Boston on how our correspondents have covered the big stories of 2009. I am hosting the radio show and will be talking ...Read More
As the plot thickens in the case of the thwarted Christmas bombing by a Nigerian man purportedly trained by Al Qaeda operatives in Yemen, the US is reportedly stepping up its counter-terrorism efforts to open a largely covert front in ...Read More
When President Obama announced Tuesday night that he will “finish the job” in Afghanistan and the White House began its hard sell to the media on the idea of a troop increase of approximately 30,000, there is one looming question ...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 . 