To Cover World, CBS Joins With a News Site
Thursday, October 1, 2009
By Laura Reid
The CBS network has found a great way to cover world news. They have joined forces with GlobalPost, a foreign news Web site whose correspondents consist of freelance journalists.
Many news networks have been trying to find a way to cover foreign news, and CBS seems to have found a way to have better and faster news delivered to their readers.
In the early stages of this partnership, GlobalPost will only be involved in getting the information from their freelance journalists to CBS, where its journalists and reporters will broadcast the news to viewers.
GlobalPost has no problems attracting viewers to its site, which makes a good partnership for CBS, one of the four top networks on television.
I think this partnership is definitely a good start for expansion of news media in getting better global news to the nation. CBS has really taken action in the transition into the web, and with GlobalPost being such a huge foreign News site with freelance journalists, they have more of an inside scoop of what is going on in the world. Their freelance journalists will probably find stories that normal news journalists wouldn't even think are newsworthy. That is definitely a plus.
2 comments:
Is the GlobalPost getting paid for any of this? Do the journalists get credit for their work? This is great for CBS. It allows them to get the information easier, and it is kind of a weight off their shoulders since they don't have to work as hard to find the information. I liked reading about this.
This is a great thing that CBS is doing, because there are a lot of foreign people living in the United States that would love to know what is happening back in the home country. Hopefully they can keep this going, and see positive impacts.
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