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
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
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
In case you haven’t noticed, the US is working with governments from Indonesia to the Horn of Africa in an aggressive and coordinated effort to attack Al Qaeda and Al Qaeda-inspired movements. Consider the events GlobalPost correspondents reported just this week: In ...Read More
BOSTON - GlobalPost got action today. The federal government announced an investigation and congress declared it would hold public hearings this fall on our Kabul correspondent Jean MacKenzie's investigative piece about how American tax payers' money is ending up ...Read More
BOSTON — From Berlin, where President John F. Kennedy’s words still echo, to Belfast, where the Kennedy family played a key role in brokering peace, to Cape Town, where Robert F. Kennedy made a historic speech, the Kennedy name is ...Read More
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
Today GlobalPost begins a special report titled Life, Death and the Taliban. It is a series of stories from the ground in Pakistan and Afghanistan, a multimedia project that includes video, photography, strong reporting and writing and an interactive historical ...Read More
Listen in to the journey I took through Afghanistan and Pakistan on The World starting tonight. A special four-part series of radio reports titled "Inside the Taliban" will be aired over the next four days on The World, which is ...Read More
Iason Athanasiadis was released, as you can read at the top of GlobalPost. Iason, a freelance journalist who had been writing for GlobalPost in Iran, was detained without charge for nearly three weeks by the Iranian government. He was picked up ...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 . 