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據(jù)國外媒體報道，由于美國各大報紙紛紛削減海外新聞開支，《波士頓環(huán)球報》(Boston Globe)資深記者查爾斯·賽諾特(Charles Sennott)近日離職，并創(chuàng)辦了自己的新聞機構。
GlobalPost下周一正式上線，以廣告贊助為主提供免費新聞服務，同時向其他報紙出售新聞。最初，GlobalPost的報道范圍涵蓋近50個國家，包括巴西、印度尼西亞，以及中國和印度等主要發(fā)展中國家。
加盟GlobalPost的資深新聞人員每月基本工資為1000美元左右，同時會獲得GlobalPost的相應股權。這新新聞人員的工作形式是兼職，意味著他們還可以服務于其他新聞機構。
GlobalPost網(wǎng)站總裁兼CEO菲利普·巴爾邦尼(Philip Balboni)表示：“開通GlobalPost服務對我們是一項巨大挑戰(zhàn)，因為以前還沒有人這樣做。GlobalPost宗旨是向美國公眾及其他國家的英文讀者提供國際新聞服務?！?/font>
Overseas reporters have been a casualty of budget-chopping in news organizations, leaving an opening for the online start-up GlobalPost. But at a time when many news executives are exploring nonprofit business models to keep specialized reporting flowing, GlobalPost, which made its debut Jan. 12, is intended to be a moneymaking venture.
With 65 correspondents worldwide — drawn from a surfeit of experienced reporters eager to continue working in their specialties, even as potential employers disappear — GlobalPost has begun offering a mix of news and features that only a handful of other news organizations can rival.
Recent articles, free at , included reports on Thailand’s Islamic insurgency and Indian yogis worried about the financial crisis.
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That ad-supported reporting is only one part of the GlobalPost business plan. If it is to succeed, it will depend in part on how many people sign up for a separate paid section of the site, which was to have been available in test mode beginning last week but is now expected to go online soon.
Called Passport, it offers access to GlobalPost correspondents, including exclusive reports on business topics of less interest to general audiences, conference calls and meetings with reporters and breaking news e-mail messages from those journalists.
Passport subscribers, who pay as much as $199 a year, can offer ideas for articles.
‘‘If you are a member, you have a voice at the editorial meeting,’’ although the site will decide which stories to pursue, said Charles Sennott, a GlobalPost founder and its executive editor. He said Passport was meant to ‘‘create a feeling of community’’ for subscribers who might otherwise see newsrooms as ‘‘impenetrable and fortresslike.’’
GlobalPost correspondents, who include the former Washington Post writer Caryle Murphy in Saudi Arabia and a Time magazine correspondent turned novelist, Matt Beynon Rees, in Jerusalem, are paid extra for Passport work. Their basic compensation is $1,000 a month for four articles, plus shares in the venture. The site had 500 applicants, Mr. Sennott said.
Only a couple of dozen people have signed up for Passport, said Philip Balboni, GlobalPost’s other founder and the president and chief executive. The site is depending on marketing partnerships to generate subscriptions, some discounted, and hopes to have more than 2,000 by the end of the year.
Two months in, the Boston company says demand for the free site — the mainstay of the business — is ahead of expectations. It has logged 250,000 unique visitors, compared with the 90,000 Mr. Balboni had hoped for by now, and 1.1 million page views, more than half by returning visitors.
