GlobalPost is an online US news

News media

The news media are those elements of the mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public or a target public.These include print media , broadcast news , and more recently the Internet .-Etymology:A medium is a carrier of something...

 company that focuses on international news. It wants "to redefine international news for the digital age."

History and management

Charles M. Sennott and Philip S. Balboni founded the company on January 12, 2009 with $8.5 million from private investors. It has 65 correspondents worldwide, including former Washington Post journalist Caryle Murphy, Time journalist Matt Beynon Rees, and former NPR

NPR

NPR, formerly National Public Radio, is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. NPR was created in 1970, following congressional passage of the Public Broadcasting...

 correspondent Michael Goldfarb

Michael Goldfarb (author and journalist)

Michael Goldfarb is an American author, journalist and broadcaster based in London since 1985.-Early life and career:...

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The company is funded by internet advertising, syndication

Syndication

Syndication may mean:* Broadcast syndication, where individual stations buy programs outside of the network system* Print syndication, where individual newspapers or magazines license news articles, columns, or comic strips...

, and memberships to its Passport program.