GroundTruth

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 .

• The New York Times - A Web Site’s For-Profit Approach to World News
• Wall Street Journal - Newspapers move to outsource foreign news
• MSNBC Morning Joe - Charles Sennott Talks GlobalPost.com
• Online Journalism Review - A start-up treads where big media retreat
• MediaShift - GlobalPost Aims to Resuscitate Foreign Correspondents Online
• Associated Press - Web Startup to Offer Foreign News as Papers Cut (1/9/2009)
• Theage.com - Web-based US news has global ambitions
• The Phoenix talks with GP about reinventing foreign reporting
• GP to provide content to Huffington Post World
• Boston Magazine highlights GP founders Charles Sennott and Philip Balboni

C.M. Sennott has covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq from the beginning. Here is a sampling of past coverage.

• How one journalist gambled on the future of news (3/1/2009, CJR)
• Can It Hold: Five years after the Iraq war began... (3/16/2008, Boston Globe)
• Driving a Wedge: 3 part series on Saudi Arabia, 9/11 (2002, Boston Globe)
• Back, but not at home: coverage of veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan (2007, Boston Globe)
• Life in the Graveyard: 8 years of covering bin Laden (2002, Esquire)
• Educating Sally: A mother who lost her son in 9/11 attacks returns to Afghanistan to build a school (2007, Boston Globe Magazine)
• The Last Day of a Great Ride: Sennott on 22 years as a newspaper reporter and life as a foreign correspondent (Neiman Reports, Harvard)
• Foreign Reporting: Adding Layers to What Goes in the Notebook (Neiman Reports, Harvard)

• The Long War: 5 year anniversary of 9/11 (Reporters Notebook) (2006, Boston Globe)
• Inside the Surge in Iraq on the 5 year anniversary of the conflict (2006, Boston Globe)
• A Promise to Keep: multimedia coverage on veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan (2007, Boston Globe)

• PBS NewsHour: Inside View of Taliban Underscores Afghanistan's Complexity (8/14/2009)
• New Hampshire Public Radio - Delivering Foreign News Differently (1/8/2009)
• NPR interview on the Iraq surge (2008)
• NPR interview on the London bombings (July, 2005)
• From Afghanistan and Pakistan (2006, The World)

Perils of Empire was featured in the February 8, 2004 edition of The Boston Globe Magazine. The article received the “Foreign Press Association Story of the Year” award.

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