Philip Balboni is the President, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of GlobalPost.
GlobalPost is an online-based international news agency. It has the mission: "to redefine international news for the digital age.
The group started on January 12, 2009, with 65 correspondents worldwide. Former Washington Post journalist Caryle Murphy, based in Saudi Arabia, and Time journalist and novelist Matt Beynon Rees, based in Jerusalem, worked for the agency from the beginning. Philip Balboni started it with $8.5 million from private investors. He had previously started the New England Cable News network.
The agency largely supports itself from internet advertising.