Owning The News
Philip Balboni thinks he can build the next great global news organization with the help of an unlikely ally: Capitalism. 
The chief of Boston-based Global News Enterprises, Balboni is preparing to launch a test version of his international news site later this fall, with a full-scale debut in January. He’s signed roughly 40 correspondents and five regional editors with pedigrees ranging from Time Magazine to the Associated Press. Reporters in Asia and Eastern Europe are up next. Earlier this month, GNE stole Politico‘s Barbara Martinez as one of its managing editors.
“We are journalist entrepreneurs, and we have to find new models for journalism in the digital age,” says Balboni. Read full story:
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